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A Radical Idea for Fixing Congress: Proportional Representation | #alaska | #politics
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Google-News-Wire
- July 6, 2023
- America’s current system
- American democracy
- best way
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- Lee Drutman
- left-leaning New America Foundation
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- moderate Democrat Mary Peltola
- Moderate Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski
- more representative government
- Multimember House districts
- multiparty democracy.Lee Drutman
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- U.S. Politics
- unachievable.Supporters of proportional representation
- vigorous competition of ideas
For most Americans, voting for a member of Congress is one of their simplest civic duties. Every two years, they pick the candidate they like best—usually the same one they chose last time—and whoever gets the most votes will represent them and a few hundred thousand of their neighbors in the House of Representatives. In […]
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Why Mayors Are So Unpopular
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Google-News-Wire
- January 13, 2023
- American cities
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- Eric Adams’s approval rating
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- Katherine Levine Einstein
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- quarter of San Francisco residents
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- Successive months of increasing homicides
- term-limited
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- well-liked mayors
“I’m not going to sit here and tell you we did everything perfectly. We haven’t,” Lori Lightfoot, Chicago’s mayor, says in a campaign ad released late last year. “But we’ve tried our darndest to make sure we got it right, and when we haven’t—you pick yourself up and you listen and you’re humble and you […]
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