Funny to hear “voting by population” as phrase that appears to be intended to obfuscate the fact that it means “just counting the votes” like literally every other democracy does.
Also, Vermont actually has exactly the same representation in the senate and house despite a higher population than Alaska, this example supports my statement, not yours.
That wasn’t my intention. I wasn’t trying to obfuscate anything. I said it that way to directly point to the reality that it is not done the way every other democratic county does it. Honestly jumping to “he’s trying to deceive me!” is aggressive and doesn’t give me hope this will be a productive conversation
Anyway, this is why I said senate representation per person. Since every state gets 2 Senators per state, regardless of population or land area, this means states with lower populations get the same level of representation. Without doing a ton of math this late in the evening let’s say in California it’s 1 senator per 15 million people. In Vermont its 1 senator per 300,000 people. That in effect is more representation per person. Same thing applies to the electoral college since states get a minimum number of electoral college votes.
And yeah the same representation for Vermont and Alaska proves my point actually. It’s not based on size its based on state. It’s not land voting its the state that votes. If land voted Alaska would have more representatives than Vermont.
Honestly this isn’t even a disagreement to your main point. Electoral power in the US is not distributed by population. This is 100% true. It’s just that it’s divided up by state, not by land mass.
Funny to hear “voting by population” as phrase that appears to be intended to obfuscate the fact that it means “just counting the votes” like literally every other democracy does.
Also, Vermont actually has exactly the same representation in the senate and house despite a higher population than Alaska, this example supports my statement, not yours.
That wasn’t my intention. I wasn’t trying to obfuscate anything. I said it that way to directly point to the reality that it is not done the way every other democratic county does it. Honestly jumping to “he’s trying to deceive me!” is aggressive and doesn’t give me hope this will be a productive conversation
Anyway, this is why I said senate representation per person. Since every state gets 2 Senators per state, regardless of population or land area, this means states with lower populations get the same level of representation. Without doing a ton of math this late in the evening let’s say in California it’s 1 senator per 15 million people. In Vermont its 1 senator per 300,000 people. That in effect is more representation per person. Same thing applies to the electoral college since states get a minimum number of electoral college votes.
And yeah the same representation for Vermont and Alaska proves my point actually. It’s not based on size its based on state. It’s not land voting its the state that votes. If land voted Alaska would have more representatives than Vermont.
Honestly this isn’t even a disagreement to your main point. Electoral power in the US is not distributed by population. This is 100% true. It’s just that it’s divided up by state, not by land mass.