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Democrats increasingly believe that the American electoral system is skewed against them. But with a bare majority in the House and a “tiebreaker majority” in the Senate, and facing congressional midterm elections expected to boost the out party, their window to make any long-lasting changes to that system could close in 18 months.
Most of the solutions that they tout to fix this have no bipartisan support. The massive election reform and voting rights bill H.R. 1 has become anathema on much of the Right, and D.C. statehood faces united opposition from Republicans as well as potential constitutional complications.
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