Bumping it for the last time.

Ok, I guess I'll make it easier.
Blue States can be considered as "lucky", red States as "unlucky". The darker a State is, the more lucky/unlucky it is. Have a look to North Carolina and Utah in particular : at the time, they were particularly famous for being respectively the luckiest and the unluckiest.

Remember, it regards the House of Representatives in 2003.

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I think we really need that proxy voting ban...

Um, what is that comment supposed to mean? Why post that in this thread?

Reading comprehension doesn't appear to be one of your strengths.

"OMG the candidate I don't want to win is winning. Must be proxies!"

I must agree with the Grand Fuhrer General Secretary Generalissimo Godman King Lt. Governor and Northeast Rep on this one guys.
Face it, Populares are getting........popular.

Depend what you mean by "popular". Among zombies, yes.

So we've attained the status the JCP has had for years?

Even if it were true, it's something you're proud of ?

I'm not proud of anything underhand we do. All I'm pointing out is that you guys set the precedent there.

Zombie voting has taken unseen proportions since the birth of the ARC. Literally, zombies now decide every election. This never happened before, and if you deny it please give some examples.

[popular.]

I think we really need that proxy voting ban...

Um, what is that comment supposed to mean? Why post that in this thread?

Reading comprehension doesn't appear to be one of your strengths.

"OMG the candidate I don't want to win is winning. Must be proxies!"

I must agree with the Grand Fuhrer General Secretary Generalissimo Godman King Lt. Governor and Northeast Rep on this one guys.
Face it, Populares are getting........popular.

Depend what you mean by "popular". Among zombies, yes.

So we've attained the status the JCP has had for years?

Even if it were true, it's something you're proud of ?

Couldn't agree more. There are far more scary ideologies that are currently threatening the USA. Obviously I find neocons' vision extremely naive and simplistic, but I think the same about radical anti-neocons like BRTD.

[popular.]

I think we really need that proxy voting ban...

Um, what is that comment supposed to mean? Why post that in this thread?

Reading comprehension doesn't appear to be one of your strengths.

"OMG the candidate I don't want to win is winning. Must be proxies!"

I must agree with the Grand Fuhrer General Secretary Generalissimo Godman King Lt. Governor and Northeast Rep on this one guys.
Face it, Populares are getting........popular.

Depend what you mean by "popular". Among zombies, yes.

I think we really need that proxy voting ban...

Of course we need it. But Senators are probably to focused on preventing the HAEV from doing what it was supposed to do (and what they voted for) even though it hadn't done anything for the moment. Since 80% of proxies are zombies, it's not very encouraging...
The problem is that most of Atlasian citizens either don't care or don't understand what's happening to Atlasia. So most of them think it's urgent to do nothing.

Lagarde *yawn*

Please someone ban this damn troll.

You are far more of a troll than he is.

I really do feel sorry for you.

Oh, you do? Thank you, I know I really bear the brunt of that bratty child Antonio's temper tantrums, but I do it for the good of the forum. I wouldn't want anyone else to have to go through that.

Just out of interest, do you find yourself amusing?

Antonio is worse, despite the flags.

I've never interacted with you since you are there. But obviously you don't need that to have an opinion, it's so easy to just follow Libertas...

No, obviously.

*facepalm*

Obviously not. It's a basic violation of every fairness rule.

But damn, it makes American electoral geography so interesting...

Imagine this forum without EC. No more "discuss with maps".

True. And probably I wouldn't even have registered here since I wouldn't have become the American politics junkie I am.

Sincerely, this bill is one of the stupidest that was ever considered.

The federal Constitution is superior to any regional Constitution, and it expressly bans holding several offices at any level of the government.

I've always been passionated by this subject.

I'm even planning to make something about this, but it's really time-consuming...

Please someone ban this damn troll.

Washington's veto seems quite legitimate, since the Constitution did indeed set a minimun population per representative. Plus, I tend to think that Jefferson's method is actually quite fair and adapted to the House of Representatives. Indeed, small States are extremely overrepresented in the Senate (logical, that's its role). So, in some way, the House should compensate for this overrepresentation by favoring larger States, so that the Electoral College is closer to the real repartition of the population. Obviously, it's not a mathematical argument, but rather a political one.

The original Constitution provided that slaves be counted as 3/5 of a person for apportionment purposes.  So if half the population was slaves, then a state would get about 90% of the representation it normally would have, though those 90% would be elected by the half of the population that could vote.

Actually, on my count, it would make 80% instead of 90%. Wouldn't it ?

And which criterion did they use for the final 1872 apportionment if it was neither Webster nor Hamilton method ? I hope they didn't dare distributing seats arbitrarily.

This group advocates greatly increasing the size of the House of Representatives, so that congressional districts would have about 30,000 people, as they did in 1789.

30,000 people per representative ?!? This would make a 10133-members House...
I also favor a huge increase of the size of the House (1000 Representatives seems fair in a so big country), but not at this point.
In the other link you posted, they instead advocate for a 1761-members House. Still, it seems quite irrealistic to me, even though I strongly agree with what they say.

Lagarde.

Obviously not. It's a basic violation of every fairness rule.

But damn, it makes American electoral geography so interesting...

Wow... As I imagined, the first year is being a toubled one...

The 1500€ SMIC obviously makes no sense, and I think that few people in the PS would really support that. The remaining seems not so bad, and anyways far better than Sarko's policies.

The guy able to make rational arguments. And who BTW is not a power grab.

Aw, thanks, you voted for me, Tony.

Just look at your display name.

The guy able to make rational arguments. And who BTW is not a power grab.

Damn, all this is so interesting... I spent the entire day reading the links you posted !

Well, also if I recapitulate, the methods used were :
- 1791-1842 : Jefferson method (rounding down)
- 1842-1852 : Webster method (arithmetic mean)
- 1852-1911 : Hamilton method (strongest remainder)
- 1911-1941 : Webster method (arithmetic mean)
- 1941- : Huntington-Hill mthod (geometric mean)

I'm really passionated by reapportionment methods and all these mathematical stuff... But I really wonder how you manage to know so many things. I'm really impressed.

And BTW, I spent weeks to search throughout the web for the population of each State by census, and then filling my own spreadsheet... All this to finally discover that I didn't found the right results (no overseas). And then you come with an already done spreadsheet with all the results ! Damn it.

Re-BTW, I'd really like to have such exercises as math homework.

Since, by a fluke of the Dave, I was re-elected to the Assembly, this thread shall be now official office of sole JCP officeholder in Northeast.

I wouldn't call it a fluke of the Dave since there were 9 candidates for 10 offices...

But maybe DSK has been chosen only to win the legislative elections... !

Yes, seems pretty logical. But replacing him right after the elections would be pretty stupid, so she's stuck with him for one year or two.

Technically, he could indeed win a plurality of delegates, but not a majority.