Our gerrymandered congressional maps are creating all kinds of problems. Redistricting assassin Dave Daley has a solution. Watch him explain on an all new LP Podcast, out NOW: https://youtu.be/k-bL8JHdoJQ
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I'm surprised Trump's even letting us have an election of any kind.
aug 26, 2025, 1:28 pm • 12 2 • view
I’m not. Russia & Hungary both have “elections”.
aug 26, 2025, 1:40 pm • 4 0 • view
Exactly. They just don’t mean anything beyond demonstrating you’re willing to fall in line.
aug 30, 2025, 9:18 pm • 1 0 • view
Much simpler fix is to abandon the cap on representatives. Go to the Wyoming plan
aug 30, 2025, 9:41 pm • 1 0 • view
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aug 26, 2025, 1:40 pm • 4 2 • view
I don’t think that’s what he’s promoting. With proportional representation in that graphic, each party would send two representatives to the House. But PR would promote third parties, too.
aug 30, 2025, 9:18 pm • 0 0 • view
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aug 26, 2025, 2:01 pm • 1 0 • view
You could probably run the specifications for districting via longitude and latitude through a number of the AI systems ensuring population areas are not isolated. Districts to be as close to a rectangle as possible. Nice and neutral
aug 26, 2025, 1:28 pm • 3 0 • view
Since there are more house seats in red states than blue, wouldn't making all seats at large result in a permanent Repub Congress
aug 30, 2025, 9:26 pm • 0 0 • view
past time to fix the RIGGED SYSTEM. ranked choice voting WORKS because every voter is HEARD.
aug 26, 2025, 1:46 pm • 6 0 • view
What we need to make sure that Republicans go extinct like the dinosaurs they are. Take away the corporate money and foreign interest while you’re at it. Fair maps are just the start of the wish list.
aug 26, 2025, 1:56 pm • 7 0 • view
But the GOP doesn't WANT that.
aug 30, 2025, 9:12 pm • 1 0 • view
This book goes through all of this in detail: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/polemic-fo...
aug 30, 2025, 9:16 pm • 0 0 • view
Notice how so many other advanced democracies have adopted our gerrymandering process, our Electoral College, and our Senate representational model? Yeah, me neither.
aug 26, 2025, 1:30 pm • 18 1 • view
yes, multi-member proportional voting system like german’s is the way. i still haven’t seen a good legal analysis arguing for this. not being a constitutional legal scholar, it appears to be illegal. But first step, bump house to 1500 members. only takes a simple law. (then scotus to 29).
aug 30, 2025, 11:37 pm • 0 0 • view
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aug 31, 2025, 5:52 am • 0 0 • view
I couldn’t agree more. Proportional representation - along with a lift of the House’s silly 435 cap - probably provides more bang for the buck than any other change we could make to the Republic. (Others are voting access & campaign finance law along with expanding the damn Court.)
aug 30, 2025, 9:16 pm • 0 0 • view
PR in SCOTUS: 3 D seats, 3 R seats, 3 Ind seats. One seat vacates, you replace it from the same party. No more tipping the scales.
aug 30, 2025, 9:22 pm • 0 0 • view
And no politicians changing parties or they are out.
aug 31, 2025, 10:37 am • 1 0 • view
Ireland solved this over 100 years ago with STV-PR. Works really well.
aug 26, 2025, 1:25 pm • 3 0 • view
So, adopt the proportional representation list system historically used in Europe?
aug 26, 2025, 1:26 pm • 4 0 • view
There’s two countries not using PR in Europe. One is the United Kingdom. The other is Belarus. That’s not good company
aug 26, 2025, 1:31 pm • 3 0 • view
Germany have a hybride system with winner takes all constituies and a PR system whitch garanterat PR for parties with morgon than 5% of the votes.
aug 26, 2025, 2:19 pm • 1 0 • view
I’ve been suggesting this for years. No districts, no gerrymandering. California and Texas, Florida and New Jersey are all 60-40 states (roughly). Just because you are the 40 shouldn’t mean you don’t have a voice.
aug 30, 2025, 9:09 pm • 1 0 • view
True. I am in Florida and am not represented at all. That loser Cory Mills is my rep in the House and Rick Scott for the Senate.
aug 31, 2025, 10:39 am • 0 0 • view
Our system is broken which is okay. Democrats have to demonstrate that our policies bring about a better society. Hard to do but it can be done.
aug 26, 2025, 4:44 pm • 0 0 • view
I am very close to agreement with the opinions expressed in this youtube video ... but ... I would go a step further than the multi-representative districts ... I would go all the way to statewide elections, by counting the total vote, and making total reps split as to votes cast ...
aug 26, 2025, 10:16 pm • 0 0 • view
... if one party gets 40% statewide, 40% of reps are assigned to that party, if the other gets 50%, they get half, the rest go to the third party or even to a third and fourth party ... or to a runoff if no other party gets close to a 'full rep' percentage of the vote! Make the house 449 or 499!
aug 26, 2025, 10:16 pm • 0 0 • view
As an alternative, have a rep for each 600,000 voters, or within 5% of that number! It might lose a small amount of personal contact, but it may encourage more state loyalty rather than only district loyalty among the reps as they would be statewide candidates, answerable to all of the state's vote!
aug 26, 2025, 10:16 pm • 0 0 • view
One person one vote, like normal countries. No electoral college any longer.
aug 31, 2025, 3:01 am • 1 0 • view