You'd still have split representation if you flip the Legislature, assuming party lockstep -- if we don't assume lockstep, then split rep is still possible even without flipping the Leg.
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Sorry, I'm utterly failing to parse this sentence - could you rephrase?
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Certainly, apologies. Since Senatorial terms are staggered, an intervening state Legislative election that changed party control can still result in split representation (Senators from different parties)
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Even without an intervening party-control change in the State legislature, if control is narrow and party discipline not tightly enforced, then enough people can defect to choose a Senator not of their party, again resulting in split representation.
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>if control is narrow and party discipline not tightly enforced >defect to choose a Senator not of their party I mean, it sounds good, but... when is the last time the electoral college has defected and chosen someone other than what the party stipulated?
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I literally NEVER HEARD about this. https://dqydj.com/how-many-faithless-electors-2016/ … I didn't think I could be any more bitter about that election. Thanks!
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'making people more bitter, with facts' is basically my brother's entire Online Thing tbh
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doing the lord's work
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the big push to get faithless electors to switch from Trump to Clinton resulting in more than twice as many switching from Clinton to Trump, and even more trying to, is deeply emblematic of something
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