They had votes before but Nevada DNC liked all of political spending over it being a swing state.
Texas could join now, instead of looking at old 2020 coalition.
DNC is an Israel first outcome, and fundraising driven, instead of having a winning mission. Ken Martin is better than past, but still.
Political class has more power at 50.1% voting differences, and at regional level, more than half the candidates are overrepresented vs underrepresented to their population ratios.
Another proposal that would satisfy some of these “power” concerns is doubling the size of house. It doubles political opportunities for incumbents.
We cannot have UBI, because UBI distributes power away from politicians who are left with less discretionary budgets and power to “steal” cash away from citizens through boondoggles. Similar power balance calculus happens with proposals like this.
Dem Lt Gov is gatekeeper for what gets voted on. Some horse trading is possible. Texas is not disadvantaged by popular vote president because it is a large state. Does senate need to approve new gerrymandering?
It would be pretty screwed if a Governor could unilaterally decide to change how a state’s participation in the presidential election without even a majority of the Senate.
I would not be shocked that if the pact ever did one day come to actually mean something for someone to come along and sue over it because it ends up going against some state’s constitution and they only passed it as a law not an amendment.
Texas could join now, instead of looking at old 2020 coalition.
We cannot have UBI, because UBI distributes power away from politicians who are left with less discretionary budgets and power to “steal” cash away from citizens through boondoggles. Similar power balance calculus happens with proposals like this.
They still have a Republican state Senate looks like.
Dem Lt Gov is gatekeeper for what gets voted on. Some horse trading is possible. Texas is not disadvantaged by popular vote president because it is a large state. Does senate need to approve new gerrymandering?
It would be pretty screwed if a Governor could unilaterally decide to change how a state’s participation in the presidential election without even a majority of the Senate.
I would not be shocked that if the pact ever did one day come to actually mean something for someone to come along and sue over it because it ends up going against some state’s constitution and they only passed it as a law not an amendment.