re: #80 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

As with the House: if you count the overall number of votes cast for each party in states like Ohio, the numbers come out nearly equal. Seems that each party should have eight of the 16 seats, or perhaps a 9-7 or 10-6 split.

Ohio Democrats hold four seats.

The liberal parts of the US are more and more holding the majority of the people and the economic power of the country. The only thing keeping Republicans in power are words on a page: laws and the Constitution, which by the way they are trying to bend and break at every opportunity. Seems that if you want to keep power using only the words on a page, it might be good to have some respect for those words, but what do I know.

As for the far future (that is, beyond next week): the structure of the country may be changed by outside forces we don’t know about yet. Beyond that, I doubt the real problems of the Constitution will ever be fixed by the remedies within the Constitution itself, because the inability to realistically fix the Constitution is the main problem with the Constitution. We’ll probably get to some future political crisis, and the economic and social power of the cities will be overwhelming enough to force a new Constitutional convention regardless of what the current document says. This Constitution was not approved using the rules within the Articles of Confederation, for the same reasons.