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Originally Posted by edslunch
If we became 10 or 13 states we’d have 20 or 26 senate seats, the majority of which would be blue. And we’d likely have the same total number of EC votes (assuming they relatively distributed by population), in fact might gain some given how tiny PEI is. So if one 51st state would be bad for the republicans adding 51-60 or 63 would be worse.
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They'd carve out areas of BC/AB/SK to be separate states and mitigate the problem. But it isn't happening in my lifetime so I don't know why I'm talking about it.