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Didn't the Republicans win the House in 2012 while the Democrats had won the popular vote by over a million votes?

Did I miss some sort of national election last night? Unless you’re calling state lines gerrymandering then the National margin is a ridiculous concept to apply to state elections.

Right. This happens by design, having 2 Senators per State, independently of the relative population of the States. Regardless, just with like the Electoral College concept, the unavoidable conclusion is that not all votes count the same *by design*. It sounds more like a flaw...

To be exact, it was a solution built for a very different problem from the founding of the country. Giving small states an extra element of representation had a different meaning in the context of incorporating these states in the first place than it does in a modern democracy.

Indeed and with less movement in those days, people truly were Pennsylvanians, Virginians, etc. Now? There could be as many (if not more) North Dakotans living in California, Texas, New York, etc

And there are plenty of people who literally live in one state and work in another, even. There are places where you can literally cross a state line going through suburbs, even.

My poor understanding (I went to a French school...) is that they needed to persuade states to join the federation by promising them equal representation regardless of population or size. No longer true... but I don't see Wyoming relinquishing its outsize influence.