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SystemSystem Posts: 11,017
edited October 2018 in General

imagepoliticalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Many Democrats are viewing the November 6th Midterms in same way Remainers would view a second referendum

In 2016 there were two elections which had global reverberations – Brexit and, of course, the election of Donald Trump. Both were close, both were seen as defeats for the liberal establishment and in both those on the losing side would dearly love to see the outcomes thwarted in some way.

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    edmundintokyoedmundintokyo Posts: 17,150
    Only problem is that they need a big national margin to ensure they have most seats. Gerrymandering of the Congressional District boundaries in Republican controlled states legislatures gives the party an advantage.
    This is part of the story, but a lot of it is normal FPTP retardedness, eg a lot of Democratic voters live clustered in cities, so if you have a terrible voting system created before there were political parties and maintained by incumbent predatory delay you end up with quite a serious undemocratic skew.
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