DC Primary

[Bleeding heart conservative, HTMLdon]

Question is - does Dave count this as a real primary and put it in the atlas?

[Bleeding heart conservative, HTMLdon]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/elections/2004/dc/?nav=elections

[Bleeding heart conservative, HTMLdon]

That is an excellent idea - and gives the people of DC the representation they want.  And after all, that's what you Democrats are after, right?

Washington, MD - I like it already!

One possible solution wouldbe to give the inhabited parts of DC, including Georgetown, back to Maryland, and keeping a small federal district along the Potomac where almost no one lives permanently.

[Bleeding heart conservative, HTMLdon]

The only way to make it happen is going to be with a compromise.  I dunno, maybe Guam or the Northern Marianna Islands could become a state in exchange for DC? (Both have GOP Governors)  Or Puerto Rico if we could get the PNP to totally federate with us rather than being split between national Republicans and national Democrats.

If we're going to be honest here, let's face it - this issue has nothing to do with giving people representation, its about politics.  Democrats want a free uncompetitive two seats in the Senate and voting seat in the House and we don't want you to have two uncompetitive free seats in the Senate and voting seat in the House.  If all Americans deserve equal  representation, then all people who are under American control should be encompassed by a state, so we would have to have the State of Guam, the State of NMI, the State of the Johnston Atoll, etc.

Jravnsbo, I appreciate your honesty. At least you admit that you don't support DC statehood because it would be bad politically for the GOP. That's more honest than trying to make up some BS reason for why DC shouldn't get equal representation, since there are no other logical reasons to deny them representation in Congress.

However, you are correct that it won't happen anytime soon unless there starts to be a national demand for action, since the Republicans in Congress would oppose it.

If DC gets representation, then why not Puerto Rico, The Virgin Islands, Guam, American Somoa... where does it end?

[Bleeding heart conservative, HTMLdon]

And if DC gets close to becoming a state, you can guarantee that we will try to split Idaho into two states to get two free extra Senators!