Be careful, Andrew. Touting yourself as a conservative Maverick is an easy way to get yourself linked to Sarah Palin forever.

Dallas Mavericks and former Golden State Warriors center Andrew Bogut’s political beliefs are exactly what you would expect them to be.

More like Andrew Bigot, amirite???

I think Schoen does a great job considering he’s calling the games from a TV monitor in Miami.

RI is the wrong state to use to understand why the Senate is necessary. A better state is Alaska.

I agree with the general principle of protecting the minority from the tyranny of the majority — and certainly understand why it’s needed in many contexts — but don’t think that civil rights issues are a good analogy with proportional representation of states. At least until Cali and other huge states start arguing…

Not entirely wrong, yet incredibly misleading and wrong.

I recently read an article summarizing the GOP strategy during 2010. They completely exploited the apathy towards midterm elections to take over at the state level in order to cement control at the federal level for years to come. What an indictment of our system!

Why is it acceptable in 2016 for a Wyoming voter to be over three times as powerful as a California voter? I get what you’re saying, but the “it’s really not that bad” argument doesn’t really hold water.

That’s the problem, I’m not arguing we SHOULD have the EC, I’m simply pointing out the HamNo’s description is misleading. I don’t care about the EC, but I want the system we have accurately described while we have it!

If anything, our system is unfair because people get distracted by presidential elections every 4 years and end up ignoring city/state/national congressional elections that actually matter.

This is an argument for the Senate being equal representation.

I think the equivalency between ‘people in small states having a voice’ and ‘small states having a voice’ is false. If everything was proportional to population, all people have equal voice, regardless of what state they live in.

“please stop talking about the Senate being unfair because it gives equal representation to every state. That was the compromise and balance between the small and large states when forming our government.”

Two points:

1). The Framers pretty clearly thought state identity mattered much more than it does today. …

This is interesting. The way to limit the possibility of the electorate picking crazy people for the House is to ... give them the chance to pick crazy people for the Senate? Or, in the years before Senate seats were up for general election, allow those possibly crazy people in the House to select the members of the…

I think we all understand that a compromise was made, and that’s why our government is set up the way it is.

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The one problem is that the EC favors smaller states disproportionately. If each EC vote were a standard quantity (like 1M citizens = 1 vote) then it would be more fair.

Also, please stop talking about the Senate being unfair because it gives equal representation to every state. That was the compromise and balance between the small and large states when forming our government. The republicans have turned the Senate into a weapon, but the idea itself is not the major scandal you…

EC votes are Senators plus House reps. So they aren’t proportionately tied to population because a theoretical state with a population of one would still get three EC votes. This means the lower the population of a state, the more powerful a single citizen’s vote in that state is. It’s bullshit that my vote as a…