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    Interesting. Yeah I have heard people talking about increasing the number of House seats, I didn't know that they capped it in 1911. So in essence the Public Will in actuality is pretty limited now with the House becoming more unresponsive to the people, and the Electoral College being an intermediary between us and the elected. Again, I hardly hear about the electoral college except when tied to sentiments of voter apathy. I thought more people would have been more vocal about it because of the Gore loss seeing as popular vote was on his side.

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    • Well, Gore wasn't the first. There was some historical precedent there...TheBlueOne
    • Also..the founders expected a large number of competing parties, not just two...TheBlueOne
    • ..and some hated the idea of parties in the first place..but that's waaaay too idealistic..TheBlueOne
    • Yeah I figured Gore wasn't the first. But just the fact that it happened post-internet, easy access to information andtommyo
    • communication. I just thought I would have heard more about it at the time.tommyo
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