That wasn’t my intention. I wasn’t trying to obfuscate anything. I said it that way to directly point to the reality that it is not done the way everyone else does.
Also this is why I said senate representation per person. Since ever state gets 2 Senators per state, regardless of population or land area, this means states with lower populations get the same level of representation. Without doing a ton of math this late in the evening let’s say in California it’s 1 senator per 15 million people. In Vermont its 1 senator per 300,000 people. That in effect is more representation per person. Same thing applies to the electoral college.
And yeah the same representation for Vermont and Alaska proves my point actually. It’s not based on size its based on state. It’s not land voting its the state that votes. If land voted Alaska would have more representatives than Vermont.
That wasn’t my intention. I wasn’t trying to obfuscate anything. I said it that way to directly point to the reality that it is not done the way everyone else does.
Also this is why I said senate representation per person. Since ever state gets 2 Senators per state, regardless of population or land area, this means states with lower populations get the same level of representation. Without doing a ton of math this late in the evening let’s say in California it’s 1 senator per 15 million people. In Vermont its 1 senator per 300,000 people. That in effect is more representation per person. Same thing applies to the electoral college.
And yeah the same representation for Vermont and Alaska proves my point actually. It’s not based on size its based on state. It’s not land voting its the state that votes. If land voted Alaska would have more representatives than Vermont.