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0 pointsdane-pgp4y ago0 comments

If the demographics of Texas is really shifting more progressive, then the writing could also be on the wall for Republican presidential campaigns.

Perhaps at that point the party will suddenly find itself again embracing the wisdom of the proposed Lodge-Gossett constitutional amendment, which got as far as approval by a super majority in the US Senate in 1950.

https://www.nationalpopularvote.com/analysis-fractional-prop...

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jasondigitized4y ago

Republicans are doing everything they can to prolong the demographic tidal wave coming their way in the next 20 years. Texas will be blue eventually.

belltaco4y ago

Why would Democrats support that?

dane-pgpOP4y ago

Because it would make presidential election outcomes more likely to reflect the popular vote (which is the morally right thing to do), and because it reduces the risk that small changes in big states create vastly different election outcomes (which is the strategically right thing to do, if you expect your opponent to cheat, lie, and start insurrections based on false claims).

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