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lindysalsagal

(22,774 posts)
Wed Nov 5, 2025, 11:15 AM Nov 5

CA balances the senate population rep disparity: Adding 5 seats in the house helps

I'm mixing up the senate and the house, but hear me out: (rough numbers) CA may now pick up 5 more house seats for dems.

Because we seat senators 2 per state, the western red states have have a ridiculously enormous voter-rep ratio. I think the CA gerrymandering in the house helps re-balance that mistake.

With just 2 states, Wyoming and Montana, their 4 seats rep only 1,600,000 voters. CA's 2 seats rep 40million.

So, each of the MT and WY seats rep fewer than half a mill voters. The 2 CA seats each rep 20mill voters.

And I'm not even talking electoral college imbalances.

To speak plainly, the rural red state voters are tremendously over-represented.

So, as long as the supreme court is throwing out past practice and norms and even-handedness, we HAVE to try to rebalance the house, just to curtail this overreach by elections and the senate in rural red states.

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