ecl: Missouri Republicans have been championing the rural vote is worth more than urban for awhile. We have been racing for the bottom for a longggggg time.

And it shows.

It still continues to amaze me how much power the rural areas of MO have on a state level compared to the urban areas of St. Louis and KC.

MJMaloney187: You anti-white types are going to be really sorry when we leave you behind to fend for yourselves. You know that right?

How can I be anti-white? I'm white.

MJMaloney187: You anti-white types are going to be really sorry when we leave you behind to fend for yourselves. You know that right?

Could you please hurry up and leave? The rest of us would like to continue progressing and not become pariahs on the world stage.

AliceBToklasLives: badLogic: I know what we can do! Count urban voters as 3/5ths of a person, like the Founding Fathers intended.

What about folks who are 1/2 urban? I was told there would be no farking math!

/fraction, how the fark do they work?

I think they would invoke the one-drop rule here.

MJMaloney187: Mrtraveler01: MJMaloney187: You anti-white types are going to be really sorry when we leave you behind to fend for yourselves. You know that right?

How can I be anti-white? I'm white.

Oh, then you're a disingenuous white liberal.

How am I disingenuous? 

Because I don't think rural voters are entitled to special treatment?

El_Perro: On Monday, as Sen. Carrico was talking up his bill, the Pew Research Center brought together a group of secretaries of state and campaign strategists. The topic: Whether the voting snafus of 2012 could be fixed. Democrats were interested. Republicans wanted to slow down and really think about this. Did urbanites have a harder time voting? Yes. Did that hurt Democrats? Well, sure.

"I don't hold out any hope that there's going to be a bipartisan agreement," said Scott Tranter, who'd consulted for the Romney campaign. "At the end of the day, we're all campaign officials, and we want to do whatever we can to help our side. Sometimes that's voter ID. Sometimes that's longer lines. Whatever it may be."

Isn't partisan control of elections great?

We're the only advanced nation that does that.

We sorely need to make some changes in the way we handle elections. There should be a national standard for federal elections, for instance.

Recommended reading on the subject:

Insatiable Jesus: udhq: MJMaloney187: You anti-white types are going to be really sorry when we leave you behind to fend for yourselves. You know that right?

Man, what is going on today? You're the third person with whom I've had to bipass "derpy green" straight to "stormfront red".



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I thought it was just me. I've seen four or so today that I've never seen before. Out of nowhere they are all over a bunch of different threads herping the derp. Probably some new division of NewsCorp.

They were trolling the Portland Mall shooting thread yesterday with their "Fark has an anti-white bias" BS.

spiderpaz: Mrbogey: This idea was championed by Democrats when Republicans were kicking their teeth in.

When? Citation, or you're lying.

Still waitin' on that citation, Mrbullshiat

I do remember people trying to get a proportional thing going in CA. It was Republicans, of course and it went nowhere.

I do remember the general sentiment among voters was pro-proportional if and when it is enacted by all states simultaneously, but the Republicans aren't interested in that idea.

If I ever meet these people in person, they will not survive the day.

I have in the past considered this same idea he proposes as a way of bringing the Electoral College back towards its intended purpose of balancing the peoples' interests with the states' interests.

But as long as districting is done by partisan schemers playing gerrymandering games with citizen's rights, it will never ever be more fair than the current system.

jjorsett: California politicians were talking about a system like this. Of course, in this state it would have benefited Democrats.

How would going from a guaranteed 55 EVs for Dems to a proportional EV allotment benefit Dems?

poot_rootbeer: I have in the past considered this same idea he proposes as a way of bringing the Electoral College back towards its intended purpose of balancing the peoples' interests with the states' interests.

But as long as districting is done by partisan schemers playing gerrymandering games with citizen's rights, it will never ever be more fair than the current system.

The problem in that is that there will always be gerrymandering, as long as it can be justified politically or demographically. Though it's completely a valid point. There are places where rural residents just flat out will never feel represented, because they're usually 180 degrees different than their state's urban populations. It's not exactly an easy thing to fix, either.

AliceBToklasLives: badLogic: I know what we can do! Count urban voters as 3/5ths of a person, like the Founding Fathers intended.

What about folks who are 1/2 urban? I was told there would be no farking math!

/fraction, how the fark do they work?

According to math, you'd count as 7/10 of a person if you're 1/2 urban.

According to the Supreme Court, it only takes one drop of urban blood to make you count as fully urban. (Plessy v. Ferguson)

/sorry

Lionel Mandrake: Still waitin' on that citation, Mrbullshiat

I'm not your manservant you pompous self-important prima donna. I'm not paid to steer online opinion (not accusing anyone here.. of course) so I'll respond to you when I get around to it. I have things I'd rather do than prove an argument to people who promptly ignore it and never amend their views.

A primer- Link
Well since it's being done in 2 states already... who championed the law in Nebraska?
Well the bill was created by Dianna Schimeck... who is a democrat. It was narrowly passed by a vote of 25-23 before it was signed into law by Ben Nelson... who is a Democrat.
Don't believe that link? Have another. Link
Why, in fact, Democrats were proud of this all the way up to as recently as May of this year- Link
Nebraska Republicans tried to change it in 2010- The Democratic Guv stopped them. Link

So there you are, Democrats liked this idea until Republicans proposed it.

Now, I just spent time doing research which will no doubt be ignored. I assume, like in the past, no one will bother to apologize to me for the vicious slurs despite being correct.

Lost Thought 00: If I ever meet these people in person, they will not survive the day.

So you advocate the indiscriminate murder of people who you disagree with politically. The hacks who claim the Tea Party is violent will never call you out on it so feel free to be as unamerican as you can be.