“detroit’s outsized influence”
https://twitter.com/nicklafave/status/1348833617456336897
can’t totally disenfranchise black voters so the next best thing is to nullify their influence by gerrymandering them into a few districts and then distributing electoral votes on the basis of that gerrymander
the obvious complaint isn’t that candidates aren’t campaigning throughout the state, it’s that this guy doesn’t think his vote should count the same as a black person in a city he hates. it’s just outright opposition to political equality.
the irony of course is that if the midwest is trending toward republicans (and the sunbelt + georgia/north carolina toward democrats) then this kind of split, which would give democrats some share of the EC vote each time, would end up harming republican presidential candidates
also one way to preemptively cut this shit out is to just double the size of the House
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