Lot of people are pushing back by noting Wyoming gets the most electors per capita.
But that doesn't determine how much power a state has in the Electoral College. What matters is the ability of a state to provide the tipping point electors, and Wyoming has zero power over that.
If electors per capita were all that mattered, explain why no presidential candidate ever goes to Wyoming, no ads ever get aired in Wyoming, no party conventions are ever held in Wyoming.
@gelliottmorris is right, Wyoming is worthless in the EC, and even Republicans know it.
There is actually *no link at all* between how many electors per capita a state gets and how powerful it is electorally.
Sure, some small states like NV have outsized power. But so do MI, PA and FL, which are in the top ten *largest* states. Closeness, not size, is what matters.
Perhaps 20 years from now, when more than half of all campaign time and advertising by both parties is spent in Texas, we can finally do away with the myth of the Electoral College existing for the benefit of smaller states.
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I think what gets me most about anti-abortion activists is, they lie.
They lie about how fetal development progresses. They lie about how doctors perform abortions. They lie that birth control can induce abortions. They lie, they lie, they lie. About everything.
20 week abortion bans are based on the lie that fetuses are pain capable at that stage. 6 week abortion bans are based on the lie that fetuses have hearts at that point. They lie that abortions cause breast cancer, suicide, basically everything under the sun.
If these people were so convinced they were on the side of right, why do they keep lying to make abortion sound more barbaric and gruesome and dangerous than at actually is?
Why wouldn't they just be honest about the science and medicine and trust people would see it their way?
Weirdest of all is anglerfish. When a male finds a mate, he bites onto her, fuses to her bloodstream, and everything atrophies except his testicles, which hang there alone and inject sperm into her forever.
He has no digestive system and will starve without fusing to a female.
Another cool one is the flatworm.
The male has a pouch on his underside, and the female sits in there forever, going wherever he carries her, mating every day. He never lets go of his lover... if she dies first, he carries her corpse around with him.
We talk a lot about how oil companies have made us dependent on planet-wrecking emissions for our energy. We talk significantly less about how car companies have made us dependent on city-destroying infrastructure for our transportation, but this is almost as big of a problem.
We had many, many choices about how to build our cities in the 20th century. Auto companies convinced us that we had to destroy walkability, kill public transit, raze entire neighborhoods of people, mostly poor and POC, in the name of making it easier to use their products.
The biggest lie Americans have ever been sold is that banning people from streets, eliminating public transit, and replacing walkable neighborhoods with disjoint suburbs connected by endless, dirty tangles of concrete ramps is a form of "freedom."
Goomboss is notable because he's the only Mario character who has ever crossed over from the RPG Mario universe to the mainline Mario universe.
In general, there is a one-way wall of separation between the mainline Mario games and sports spin-offs, and the Mario RPGs. Characters introduced in the former can cross over to the latter, but not the other way around.
Goomboss is the only exception to this rule.
This is why characters like Nabbit and Petey Piranha can make their way into Mario & Luigi titles, but Fawful and the Shroobs won't be in Mario Kart anytime soon.
If you try to pin down CA Republicans on what they'd actually do to reduce housing prices, they'll just hand-wave about repealing some unspecified "regulations." MAYBE they'll say CEQA if you press them hard enough for a specific one.
That's not a real plan.
They aren't any more likely than NIMBY Dems to offer solutions that would actually work, like mandated upzoning or property tax reform. Because they live in the same neighborhoods as those NIMBY Dems and have exactly the same attitudes about keeping them that way.
Lindsey Graham has been in the Senate long enough to know this wouldn't work. The Texas legislature has a 2/3rds quorum requirement. In the U.S. Senate, a quorum only needs a simple majority.
The GOP leaving DC would not shut down the Senate the way the Texas walkout is doing.
Another problem with Graham's idea: to dissolve a Senate quorum, you would need one Republican to stay in the Capitol to raise a point of order. So if all Dems were present and the one Republican to raise a point of order, that's 51. Clearly a quorum.
When Republicans controlled the Senate, some liberal activists suggested Democrats do the same thing to retaliate for denying Merrick Garland a hearing, then to stop Trump confirming justices.
Dems didn't do this because, just like Graham's threat now, the math doesn't work.