President Obama is taking a swipe at the Founding Fathers, blaming his inability to move his agenda on the “disadvantage” of having each state represented equally in the Senate.
At a Democratic fundraiser in Chicago Thursday
night, Mr. Obama told a small group of wealthy supporters that there are
several hurdles to keeping Democrats in control of the Senate and
recapturing the House. One of those problems, he said, is the apportionment of
two Senate seats to each state regardless of
population.
The
Founding Fathers decided in the “Great Compromise” in 1787 to apportion House
seats based on population and give each state two seats in the Senate regardless of population.
The solution was a compromise between large states and small states in a
dispute that nearly dissolved the Constitutional Convention.
The
president also blamed “demographics” for the inability of the Democratic Party
to gain more power in Congress, saying Democrats “tend to congregate a little
more densely” in cities such as New York and Chicago. He said it gives
Republicans disproportional clout in Congress.
“So
there are some structural reasons why, despite the fact that Republican ideas
are largely rejected by the public, it’s still hard for us to break through,”
Mr. Obama said.
He
also said Democrats suffer from the “congenital disease” of not voting in
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