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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Troll. Or stupid.

Right now Virginia is a blue state with two Dem Senators. If we split, Northern VA has two Dem Senators and Real VA has two Repub ones, canceling us out.

There's a bunch of this pseudo liberal trolling on this site now. Don't be taken in.[/quote]

When states that are solidly Blue everywhere, like CA, NJ, MA, HI and others, are spilt up into smaller states, the net gain in the Senate is going to be insurmountable. HI, for example - 5 islands. Each becomes its own state. That alone adds 8 additional Senators. Add Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the USVI, and DC, and that’s another TWELVE Democratic seats in the Senate. And that doesn’t even count the states CA can be split into, adding at least another 8 seats. We’re talking about the potential for dozens of new Senate seats.

So the rest of VA will elect republicans? So what? With a +2/3 majority in the Senate, Dems can send them packing before they even get office furniture ordered. [/quote]

If you want to add Senators, make DC and PR states (as they should be). If you want to add Dem Senators using existing states then get rid of gerrymandering and impediments to voting: many states would turn blue.

But your plan is unnecessary as well as ignorant of why certain states are blue. California is a red state geographically, with densely populated blue cities, for example: split it up and you will get more little red states. Having impoverished red states intermixed with rich blue states helps no one, except maybe people gerrymandering the country to maintain any kind of Republican presence in the Senate.

Still think you're a troll. [/quote]

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