http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2012/12/14/our-coming-new-plural-world Comments On: Our Coming New Plural World Order by Charles Mudede en-us Copyright 2013 The Stranger. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, The Stranger readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact The Stranger. webmaster@thestranger.com (The Stranger Webmaster) Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:00:01 -0700 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:00:00 -0700 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 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:

http://www.motherjones.com/print/206481

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/#50…

(Re: Maddow, she starts by talking about telemedicine, but keep watching.)
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