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Originally Posted by Boreas
I know that for right wingers political advantage is all that counts but I'd be willing to risk political advantage for the sake of fairness. There's nothing fair about a 'democracy' in which loser gets a couple million more votes than the winner.
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They argued about that when it was originally designed. Hamilton wanted a balance between the popular voters rights and states rights as he described in the Federalist Papers.
Fair is relative I suppose. Is it fair for a handful of counties in a handful of states to tell the majority of states and counties what to do.