Didn’t you read the OP? That’s what this thread is based on and yet somehow we shouldn’t mention polls?
That was the basis for the country. It was the condition under which states joined the Union. You want another country. Hope you find it.
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Righties have spent the past umpteen years claiming polls are biased, left-leaning.
Conveniently when a poll favors a Republican in some fashion, then polls are cool.
Just wanted to point that out. When did polls become cool again?
Well, if polls are left-leaning, then I guess its a pretty clear signal when one favors Cruz.
There are a lot of problems with our corrupted system, but I am not sure that our Congressional balance is one of them. It seems most fair to have the House represented by population while all states get equal say in the Senate. I don’t see why this is a problem. It seems to me to strike the proper balance of fairness.
I am a conservative, or as you put it a “righty.” I think polls can be biased, but it doesn’t necessarily mean they all are. That’s why I like how Real Clear Politics does their averages. But regardless of a poll says, even if its a good one, they aren’t perfect regardless of which side they may favor at any given time.
That was the original design, and it still is. Senators are supposed to bend the knee to the desires of their State government, that was never changed by amendment. All the amendment did was put the selection of senators up to the popular vote. Senators are not subject to the whims of the voting public.
Democrats have roughly the same chance of taking the Senate as Trump had of taking the presidency. It’s not likely, but no one should be shocked if it happens.
The Senate does represent states in proper proportions.
Because it stops them from mob rule.
And yet it changed everything.
Not “are not” - should not be.
It’s still mob rule, just a different mob.
The latest from 538:
WV Dem Manchin – 88.1%
IN Dem Donnelly — 75.7%
AZ Dem Sinema ---- 64.9%
FL Dem Nelson ----- 59.4%
MO Dem McCaskill – 56.2%
NV Dem Rosen ------- 52.6%
ND Rep Cramer ----- 68.5%
The Democrats should be able to hold until the Senate seats from IN and WV while the Republicans willl likely pick up the Senate seat from ND.
AZ, FL, MO and NV are too close to tell.
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The whole compromise was made so that large states wouldn’t get to overwhelm the small states. That is why each state gets two senators.
It wasn’t a perfect compromise. There is no perfect solution to the issue of small states versus large states.
I don’t give 538 much credit, didnt they give Hillary about an 80% chance of winning?
I take Real Clear Politics average much more seriously, because they look at a group of polls and give the average, which can help eliminate an outlier.
In the case of WV. looks like no polling has been done since the latter part of September, just before the allegations against BK took over. And since then, multiple polls have shown much more enthusiasm for R voters to vote next month, largely due to the way Dems behaved.
I know Manchin voted yes, but it looked like a crass political move, waiting to make his announcement after Susan Collins had clinched it. And in WV a large majority wanted BK confirmed.
Anyway, this is the RCP average for the WV senate race, they have it rated as leans Dem. I hope we get a fresh poll this week.
It’s bs… larger states should have more representation than smaller states. It’s BS that Cali, with 40million residents, get the same amount of senators as North Dakota
Thats the reason the house exists. The house is apportioned by population. California is properly represented in the house.
So in your view the smaller states should just roll over and not get any say in the matters that affect them?
My state’s population is only 4 million. Should 55 million Californians get to dictate every little thing to us?
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I wonder if the left would complain about CA having the same number of Senators as ND, SD, WY, etc if CA was a red state and the others were blue?
Now that it’s not working in their favor they are outraged, and repeating the left wing talking points promoted by some media and left wing sites.
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There were originally two separate plans. One would have gave each state equal numbers of representatives. The other would have apportioned it by population. More heavily populated states supported the latter and smaller states supported the former.
After weeks of mouth frothing and near fist fights they decided to incorporate both methods and divest the powers of a unicameral Congress into a bicameral Congress. The constitution wouldn’t have been ratified had this compromise not been in place.
Well, that’s not true.
California has 52 members of the house, and a population of 39,536,653. That’s one house member per approximately 745,974 people.
Wyoming has 1 member of the house, and a population of 579,315. Redundantly, that’s one house member per 579,315 people.
