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New GOP efforts to make it harder to vote

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R party, as usual, wants to secure a majority in government while representing an increasingly smaller minority of the actual population.
Yes.


To be fair it's gotta be at least a bit worrisome when your political views are becoming increasing uncommon if not unwelcome.
 
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Where was our democracy ever?
Not in surveys of a few thousand (out of hundreds of millions) asked vague questions only tangentially related to the "conclusions" thereby "justified" ?
 
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Not in surveys of a few thousand (out of hundreds of millions) asked vague questions only tangentially related to the "conclusions" thereby "justified" ?
Just because I don’t know how polling (and statistical analysis) works, it does not follow that nobody knows how they work.
 
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If a few thousand cannot accurately reflect the mood of the people, then neither can a few dozen.
GA's 56 State Senators are elected every 2 years and remain in constant active communication with their entire (collective) statewide constituency

Since you believe GA elections are completely fair, therefore you acknowledge that they are fairly elected every 2 years because they accurately reflect the mood of the people of GA
 
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The GOP lost the two Senate races because Republicans stayed home after foolishly listening [to] the EX President...
...listening to Trump endorsing them live at large public rallies?
 
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You don’t believe the recent GA elections were fair? The Secretary of State, the Governor, the LT. Governor all said the elections were valid? Why isn’t that enough for you?
 
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GA's 56 State Senators are elected every 2 years and remain in constant active communication with their entire (collective) statewide constituency

So at what point did they ask the entire state of Georgia whether they wanted a particular law?

Since you believe GA elections are completely fair,

When did I say that?
 
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Okay, this one doesn't make it harder to vote, but wow...

North Dakota Senate Passes Bill to Hide Future Presidential Vote Counts From Public View Until After Electoral College Meets

It would withhold the state’s vote count from the public and allow officials to only reveal the percentage of the total vote each candidate receives.

Ok, so we would know who won. So what's the purpose?

The bill is designed to prevent implementation of the national popular vote compact – a multi-state agreement aimed at circumventing the Electoral College.

Ah, we can't know who won the popular vote, if they don't make the vote totals available. Unless this catches on in more states, it's not likely to have much effect since there are fewer than a million people in all of North Dakota.
 
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You don’t believe the recent GA elections were fair? The Secretary of State, the Governor, the LT. Governor all said the elections were valid? Why isn’t that enough for you?

These were the same Republicans who have been responsible for major efforts of voter suppression for years, certainly when the governor was Secretary of State.
 
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Why would 16% of people support DACA AND the border wall? Seems quite contradictory. You can't poll <100k people (ie: Gallup) to test the pulse of 330M Americans. The sample size is too small. I would wager that the sample leans a certain way anyway, and doesn't truly represent the views (holistically) of the majority of Americans.
 
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