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Originally Posted by Lune
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There are countless residents of states solidly controlled by the opposing party who are utterly disenfranchised. The solution isn't to join another state, it's to get rid of the Senate and electoral college, so representation can be based on votes, not on arbitrary geographical designations.
Regarding Greater Idaho, I honestly have no objection to the red areas of eastern Oregon and Washington joining Idaho. Will make it that much easier to govern the different blue and red areas how they prefer to be governed. Might as well throw in northern Nevada and a few parts of Northern California as well, so Nevada will be solidly blue instead of purple.
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By this logic you might as well break down the entire country by household. Each household can be a separate state!
The electoral college exists for a very good reason, which is that life in los angeles and nyc is completely different than life in rural nebraska. The geographic designations aren't arbitrary at all. The founding fathers understood this, which is why our country is not a pure democracy. Pure democracy is just mob rule.