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Just because it's "the rules" doesn't mean its something people have to just sit down and accept. Every constitutional amendment has redefined "the rules", and drawing a bunch of lines on a map and ignoring a vote delta of 3 million people is in my opinion, a rule that is directly counter to a democracy, and should be criticized and amended.


Especially when the maps were drawn centuries ago and haven't been updated since. A person in Wyoming's vote is 4x more powerful than someone in California based on how many electoral votes that state gets.


As you say, democrats have two options:

1. Amend the constitution (never happening) 2. Come up with a platform appealing to a large enough coalition of states

Whining about it gets them nowhere and their only real option is 2.




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