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Originally Posted by GirlySports
That is the balance isn't it? That the house is by population and the senate is by state. It just happens that the Democrats are popular in California but it could easily be the other way around.
Do we really want a situation like Alberta where it gets absolutely no say?
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Except both houses are equally important when passing legislation, so it always falls back to the senate anyways. Plus if you look at electoral votes, smaller states have way more power than larger ones
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o..._by_population
If you live in Wyoming, your vote for president has over 3x the power that someone living in California or New York does. If electoral votes were spread fairly around the states republicans would never win another presidental election again, which is why it will never happen
The US by total population would probably slide into a liberal democracy, but they're being held back by 40% of the population that have more voting power than the other 60%