Echelon-Insights Poll : Senate control split at 45/45, voters fear a democratic trifecta

[KaiserDave]

This "poll" is a joke. Just....read the questions.

[Holmes]

The fact that voters don't ever "fear" a Republican trifecta shows that Democrats are terrible at campaigning.

Voters care, just not the right voters. If you catch my drift.

[Frenchrepublican]

If Ds win the trifecta they will expand the SCOTUS and make DC a state, that is why Rs need to save the senate at all costs, to protect conservative policies.

Oh yeah, that would really be terrible if those...urban people had representation in Congress!

People of DC have representation in the House which is the popular chamber of Congress (aka the people's chamber), but as DC has never been intented to be a state it is logical you have no senator from the district.

Not voting representation, so it doesn't even matter, and why should someone be disenfranchised based on where they choose to live? The current statehood plan keeps DC stateless, it just makes a new state out of the populated areas.

Well in this case you can simply give voting power to the congresswoman of DC.

As for the dem plan which was approved by the House it's just insanity, it would create a new state which would be smaller than Staten Island, besides the entire economy of this state would depend of the federal government money (which would create a lot of problems as this state by definition would get much more federal fundings per capita than any other state). And I'm not even talking of the different constitutionnal issues which could emerge, keep in mind that DC is actually built on lands which technically could still be reclaimed by the state of Maryland.

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

If Ds win the trifecta they will expand the SCOTUS and make DC a state, that is why Rs need to save the senate at all costs, to protect conservative policies.

Oh yeah, that would really be terrible if those...urban people had representation in Congress!

People of DC have representation in the House which is the popular chamber of Congress (aka the people's chamber), but as DC has never been intented to be a state it is logical you have no senator from the district.

Not voting representation, so it doesn't even matter, and why should someone be disenfranchised based on where they choose to live? The current statehood plan keeps DC stateless, it just makes a new state out of the populated areas.

Well in this case you can simply give voting power to the congresswoman of DC.

As for the dem plan which was approved by the House it's just insanity, it would create a new state which would be smaller than Staten Island, besides the entire economy of this state would depend of the federal government money (which would create a lot of problems as this state by definition would get much more federal fundings per capita than any other state). And I'm not even talking of the different constitutionnal issues which could emerge, keep in mind that DC is actually built on lands which technically could still be reclaimed by the state of Maryland.

MD already ceded DC, this issue was already resolved when Ds voted on DC in 2020, retro session, you can't cede back what you pernamently ceded

Dems already have a rep in Congress that doesn't have voting power and she wants voting power and she will look to DC Statehood should Ds get the majority in the Senate

[Saruku]

Democrats got the result they worked for. They spent so much more time and energy on being outraged by Trump's personality and nonsense like Russiagate than on putting forward an alternative vision for the country, enabling a couple of freshman bogeymen to fill that void. The one bright spot for them in this election was nothing more than a rejection of the incumbent who mishandled his administration's response to a global pandemic and who tweeted too much.

But that's alright because soon, there won't be a dang cheeto in the White House anymore, and America's Standing in the World™ (an outrageously privileged concern that is insulting to people around the world who don't care if the bombs that are dropped on them look pretty) is restored.