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2016 Postmortem

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11. They already do. Because they are more populous
Wed Jan 18, 2017, 10:18 PM
Jan 2017

and have more representatives in the House.

Otherwise, each state will have one vote and then CA and TX would complain that they should have more weight than the smaller ones.

Or just switch to popular votes - one person one vote - and you know that the red states would object.

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