500 House seats = Gore officially wins the 2000 election

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Interesting. I've always been a supporter of a larger House, but not for this reason. More seats means that each Representative becomes more responsible to his or her individual community and makes it easier to launch localized campaigns on low budgets.

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Make the house be set at 1,000.

...Or just keep increasing the size at each Census like was supposed to happen. Setting the House at 1,000 would cause the same problems of a lack of individual representation half a century from now.

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Make the house be set at 1,000.

...Or just keep increasing the size at each Census like was supposed to happen. Setting the House at 1,000 would cause the same problems of a lack of individual representation half a century from now.

I can't imagine how such an enormous body could function.  Would it really be plausible to have a House so large?  I'm definitely an advocate for increasing the House to 499 or 501 (to prevent a tie) but 1,000 just seems like way to many people to be effective. 

Britain's House of Commons has 646 members (it was 653 until the 2005 reorganization in Scotland that made Scottish constituencies equal to English ones and will be 654 after the next election), and the House of Lords is even larger. They never have a problem functioning.

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Make the house be set at 1,000.

...Or just keep increasing the size at each Census like was supposed to happen. Setting the House at 1,000 would cause the same problems of a lack of individual representation half a century from now.

I can't imagine how such an enormous body could function.  Would it really be plausible to have a House so large?  I'm definitely an advocate for increasing the House to 499 or 501 (to prevent a tie) but 1,000 just seems like way to many people to be effective. 

Britain's House of Commons has 646 members (it was 653 until the 2005 reorganization in Scotland that made Scottish constituencies equal to English ones and will be 654 after the next election), and the House of Lords is even larger. They never have a problem functioning.

Your numbers are wrong.

(Was 659, will be 650. Is 646 is correct.)

I guess I should stop trying to do the addition in my head. I used to be good at math...

Although Wikipedia says that 17 constituencies are being abolished, and 25 are being created from scratch, so 654 should be correct.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boundary_change_recommendations_for_the_next_UK_general_election