The GOP’s once sure-fire odds to retain their Senate majority in the midterms are looking bleaker every day, but according to a new report from Politico, some in the party are plotting a “coup” that could save them from a complete wipeout: flipping John Fetterman, the increasingly ostracized Democratic senator. Fetterman was first elected to the Senate from Pennsylvania in 2022, besting the Trump-backed Republican Dr. Mehmet Oz and helping Democrats defy the odds and grow their majority in the chamber. Initially styling himself as a working-class progressive champion, he has since made a major shift away from his own party, voicing support for various initiatives and nominees from President Donald Trump and breaking the Democratic minority on several key votes.
Because it is, by design, an undemocratic institution that gives rural voters multiple times as much power as voters who live in more populated areas.
I think reforms are in need there specifically on gerrymandering but also ranked voting.
The senate isn’t an undemocratic institution that’s literally insane to say about something that relies on elections to get into
It is insane to say an institution where representatives of 10% of the population can thwart the interests of the other 90% (Source) is democratic. Russia has elections, that doesn’t make it a functioning democracy.