• nbafantest@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Each district is roughly 700k people. A few districts are bigger, a few are smaller.

    California could completely dominate the US House of Representatives and the electoral college.

    A state becomes more powerful by having more people.

    California has much much more power than Wyoming, even tho each voter in Wyoming might have a tiny bit more power than each voter in Cali.

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      11 months ago

      Yeah, but it’s not just Wyoming. It’s all the little flyover states all teaming up against big bad California, and using their disproportionate electoral power to do so - it’s the reason we’ve had multiple presidents that lost the electoral college, after all.

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        11 months ago

        Yeah sure they can get 20 extra electoral college votes combined, but California would have 20-30 more itself. California just handed these over to republicans by refusing to build housing for 60 years.

        New York has done the same.

        We’ve just handed tons of political power over Republicans, who already have a natural advantage.