Obama Jokes

[eppie]

No kidding. But if the starting point is that politicians aren't going to vote for anything that disrupts the incumbents' status quo, so why even propose any such things, then you start at the finish line: perpetual unfair political gridlock.

-Jester

Question; do al the states have a fixed number of members in the house of representatives depending on the number of inhabitants or are they elected on a federal level? I mean say if California has 50 members one would need 2 % of the california vote to get elected, something doable for a third party (like the greens or the libertarians), however if say Nebraska has 6 members it would be nearly impossible for a green member to be chosen because he would need around 17 % of the votes.

If there was just one general election for all 435 members the chances of other party members to be chosen would be much bigger, and the consistency would be much closer to the popular vote.