Comment by jrockway

Comment by jrockway 16 hours ago

What about the people that didn't vote for this? Every election is 49/51 so when someone says "they're getting what they voted for", half the people are getting the opposite of what they voted for.

TylerE 16 hours ago

It wasn't close to 51/49. The south doesn't work like that. I've lived here my whole life.

In 2024 Mississippi went 61/38 for Trump. They haven't sent a Democrat senator to DC since 1982. In their most recent state house/senate cycle, 2023, overall voting was 62R vs 34D.

They voted for this.

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jjj123 15 hours ago

OPs point wasn’t about the exact stats, it’s just that there is a significant percentage of people in a state that don’t agree or support their government.
I’d consider 38% significant.

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- TylerE 11 hours ago
  
  In 1980, when Ronald Reagan took 44 of 50 states, Jimmy Carter took 41% of the vote. In electoral terms a party taking 38% of the vote is almost a non-entity. You don't come close to succeeding in a first past the post system with those numbers.
  
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sojournerc 15 hours ago

"here", yet you say "they"... What's that about?

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- TylerE 15 hours ago
  
  I live in the south, but not in Mississippi.
  
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curtisf 16 hours ago

"The Walker Montgomery Protecting Children Online Act" ("HB 1126") was passed essentially unanimously by the Mississippi state legislature.

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davesque 14 hours ago

And 100% of voters in Mississippi voted for the representatives currently in the legislature?

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sojournerc 16 hours ago

Elected legislature. You haven't proven anything against their point that a minority is unrepresented.

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