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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wyoming, who are constantly cited as the reason why DC needs statehood, has a state senate with 30 members and 60 members in the house.

Imagine how ungovernable DC would be if the city council were expanded to 90! [/quote]

That's a good reason for DC not to do it that way, then.

Kinda makes you wonder why Wyoming does, though. Each Wyoming house member represents fewer than 10,000 people.[/quote]
Vermont is the other state with less population than DC, it has a 150-member House of Representatives and 30-member Senate.

If the suggestion is that DC needs statehood for representation, your idea is to make it the least democratic state in the country? Seems like not a great argument for statehood then. [/quote]

In that case, the least democratic state in the country is California: one US senator per 20 million people. And the US Senate may be the least democratic deliberative body in the US. Kinda ironic that it's a minority of US Senators who are blocking DC statehood, isn't it?[/quote]

Actually, DC is the least democratic, but not for the reason that you think.  Rather, because one party so dominates DC politics, it's possible in a multcandiate race that someone is as good as elected if he or she wins 12 or 13 percent in the primary, as long as that is one more vote than the next candidate.  There is no choice in September.

Other jurisdictions with one party dominance are moving to ranked choice voting for primaries (NYC) or putting the top vote grimary vote getters regardless of party on the November ballot.  If DC s serious about moving from adolescence to adulthood politically, it needs to reform.[/quote]

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