Path: ...!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Chris Buckley Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: (ReacTor) Five SF Scenarios Involving the US Presidential Line of Succession Date: 15 Oct 2024 12:35:49 GMT Lines: 36 Message-ID: References: X-Trace: individual.net Q9Q2BxqevhYKIU3sRhqrrA4WFx+pCd9V0RhScOsv/aoKhi/hpc Cancel-Lock: sha1:6CwNZ68jDn2kY0w8ueb5XFsmv9w= sha256:qVGXf6yNzJAk6oEUly3b9AkLp6Ch+saUdX4lot1QrPg= User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux) Bytes: 2283 On 2024-10-14, Scott Dorsey wrote: > William Hyde wrote: >>Chris Buckley wrote: >>It certainly was when I lived there. >> >>> Republicans have been floating plans to enfranchise DC residents for >>> decades, >> >>Only plans that will never come to fruition. >> >> but the local Democrats have been saying "no, we don't want >>> to vote that much." The Republican plans are to join DC and Maryland >>> in some form, perhaps making the remaining DC part of Maryland >> >>Maryland doesn't want them. That's what makes the plan so perfect for >>the Republicans. It won't happen but they can say that they are doing >>something. > > The plans they have been promoting basically give residents the opportunity to > vote as part of adjacent states, meaning that their votes will make far > less difference than if they were able to vote a restricted representative > to congress themselves. Which is why nobody in DC, no matter what party, > likes that program, even though it's better than nothing. > --scott DC will basically get its own Representative if it joins Maryland, but you're right they would share Senators with the rest of Maryland. But I see no evidence for your claim that Republicans would not like that program; I would guess overall they would support it (but no factual evidence to support my case either.) They would get to vote, and the possibility that DC would become a state with 2 Democratic senators would be gone. Chris