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Thread newbie here, I wanted to chime in to ask -- I've heard some folks bandying about the claim that the Senate will be increasingly hard to take going forward / expressing doubt that the Democrats will be able to retake it ever. I was curious, what's the analysis behind that? EDIT: Oh my god, the thread moves too fast. The answer to my question was just posted as I wrote this. 
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haveblue posted:Population trends in the US have Democrats concentrating in cities and the sparsely populated areas of the country becoming more Republican. However, since all states have equal representation in the Senate and not all of them have large cities where this is happening, more Senate seats are trending red than are trending blue. It's a sort of implicit natural gerrymander that is expected to lead to Dem senators from urbanized states being elected by huge margins but being outnumbered by GOP senators from rural states with low total voters. That makes sense. But I mean, the end conclusion of this reasoning is that we'll be stuck with a permanently gridlocked legislature, which is clearly not an acceptable outcome. Something will have to be done, but short of a constitutional amendment, which is obviously politically impossible, I can't imagine what that could possibly be.
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Captain Invictus posted:I really hope she doesn't stop/slow down the savage twitterposting after she's actually sworn in. I am, like, so hype for the day when AOC actually just out and posts "Full communism now". It will be glorious.
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