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comment by aerowid
aerowid  ·  3748 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: .96 correlation of voting for state reps, US reps

I would be more concerned with this if representatives didn't adhere so strictly to party lines. No one's going to vote for a candidate who disagrees with them. When your only choices are one who more or less agrees with you and one who more or less doesn't, how effective of a politician they are really is a secondary issue. What we need is election reform so you aren't forced to choose between two options split by party lines, but until then voting by party is the only reasonable option.