Yet if people don't smarten up and start voting progressive values in every election and for every office, the president will be chosen by a majority of congressional districts and that means Republican, even if the total popular vote is heavily Democratic.
Most of those swing states that went for Obama in terms of the electoral college still ended up with R majorities in the national state legislatures and the governors' offices, sometimes sending THREE TIMES as many R congressmen to Washington, despite Democratic majorities in the aggregate.
Here, have a quick snack courtesy of Mother Jones, and if you've got a bit more time, watch Maddow on the same subject:
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