Alaska is guaranteed to be Blue soon

[OfTheCross]

i think we know that from civics class, i'm just saying that's the problem.

What would you say is the solution?

Shall we have another Constitutional Convention?

 

[hashmander]

What would you say is the solution?

Shall we have another Constitutional Convention?

one man, one vote is the obvious solution. and since the makeup of the senate is prescribed by the constitution then the only way to change it would be a constitutional convention and that will never happen because more than 13 states benefit from an anti-one man, one vote stance. state legislatures use to be modeled on the us congress and state senators represented geographical units of a state, not people like the state representatives and then the supreme court decided (Reynolds v. Sims) upon the one man, one vote standard and now state senates are based on population (a larger amount than state representatives).

so because of that all we're left with is pointing out the problem knowing it won't be fixed.

 

[OfTheCross]

one man, one vote is the obvious solution. and since the makeup of the senate is prescribed by the constitution then the only way to change it would be a constitutional convention and that will never happen because more than 13 states benefit from an anti-one man, one vote stance. state legislatures use to be modeled on the us congress and state senators represented geographical units of a state, not people like the state representatives and then the supreme court decided (Reynolds v. Sims) upon the one man, one vote standard and now state senates are based on population (a larger amount than state representatives).

so because of that all we're left with is pointing out the problem knowing it won't be fixed.

I think getting rid of the filibuster alone will resolve most things.

That and maybe repealing the 17th Amendment.

TBH, the Senate, along with gerrymandering are probably the biggest issues we've got

 

[FAH1223]

thiiiiiisssssss.....the structure of the senate is so outdated.

DC statehood helps. Dems fukked up in 2009.

Dems should invest into Alaska for it's importance in the Senate alone.

Dan Sullivan barely beat the previous Dem Senator Mark Begich in 2014 by 6,000 votes. Terrible loss by the Dems