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lostnfound

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6. Every discussion of wisonsin should start with "36% foot on the scale"

Reply to jodymarie aimee (Reply #3)

Sun Nov 25, 2018, 08:07 AM

Nov 2018

Impressive voter suppression, gerrymander, and perhaps plain old fashioned cheating.

Wisconsin State House +8 gap -> - 28 gap = -36% distortion
popular vote: 53-45 = +8
seats won: 36-64 =-28

We need the old Wisconsin back. If the gap of 36% held (which it wouldn’t, but IF it did) we would need 50% + 36% = 86% to get a simple majority??

All things being equal or fair, you would expect around a 53% popular vote to result in 53% house seats being won by Democrats. If you came up with 36%, you were robbed. By what?

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In deed this is very encouraging onetexan Nov 2018 #2

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It's a WaPo headline. BlueWI Nov 2018 #4

Every discussion of wisonsin should start with "36% foot on the scale" lostnfound Nov 2018 #6

nice article dembotoz Nov 2018 #5

You're not a workin class zero CaptYossarian Nov 2018 #7