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
- biggest victory yetThe changes
- Black representation
- black voters
- civil-rights era
- co-founder of Fix Our House
- congressional elections
- Congressman
- congressmen
- Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
- council
- current winner-take
- Democratic Representative Don Beyer of Virginia
- democrats
- economy
- elections
- federal elections
- federal level
- frequently cited example of a multiparty system
- friends today
- frustrated election experts
- governor
- growing number of political-reform advocates
- house of representatives
- Katherine Gehl
- larger districts
- least hope
- Lee Drutman
- left-leaning New America Foundation
- mayor
- member of Congress
- moderate Democrat Mary Peltola
- Moderate Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski
- more representative government
- Multimember House districts
- multiparty democracy.Lee Drutman
- natural clustering of like-minded people
- new season of reform
- parties’ most ideological voters
- partisan gerrymandering
- partisan primaries
- policy advocate
- political scientist
- political-reform movement
- politics
- possible proposals
- president
- Proportional Representation
- radical change
- Ranked Choice Voting
- recent years
- republican
- Republican leaders
- senator
- senior fellow
- southern states
- support of some civil-rights activists
- 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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Winner Take All Elections Hurt Black Voters | #elections | #alabama
Most Americans have been suffering under our antiquated 18th century democratic methods for so long that we don’t realize there are alternatives. There’s an old riddle, “We don’t know who discovered water, but we can be certain it wasn’t a fish.” That is to say, we naturally take for granted the nature of the sea […]
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Supreme Court Poised to Flush the Voting Rights Act | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
It’s grisly living in the USA these days. One has a sense of another impending asteroid, named SCOTUS-2, that is about to strike, and multiple times. With the November election looming, in which congressional majorities will be decided and the rules for administering fair elections are more contentious and disputed than ever, the next Bush […]
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