The First Hundred Days of the Obama Administration

[Alex]

Originally Posted by JWBear

There is also this point:

We all have just one representative in the House. I think I'd rather have someone representing me that one out of 435 rather than one out of 11,000; someone who has 1/435th of the power rather than 1/11,000 of the power.

On the other hand you get to have less influence in trying to select the representative you think will best represent you.

Would you rather have 1/100,000th the influence on someone who will have 1/11,000th the power or 1/900,000th the influence on someone who will have 1/435th the power.

Difficult to say where the line is since I think we would agree that having one representative in the House for the entire country would not be good. But having every single person in the country having their own representative in the House would also not be ideal. I sense a graduate degree in computational political science in attempting to model it.