do i understand correctly that the US elections turned out really freaking good. the government system confuses me a bit
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@ilyamikcoder yes, basically
they have two chambers in their legislature: the house of representatives and the senate
the house is elected by dividing each state into areas roughly proportionate to population and running elections once every two years, whoever wins each individual area's majority gets the seat
it's weak to gerrymandering (it's typically state legislatures that draw the district boundaries, and they can draw them in a way that would benefit their own majority party*), but also more representative of the population as a whole
the senate gives each of the 50 states two seats, and a third of it is elected every 2 years (so each senator gets a 6 year term) -- it's less representative, with big states like california, texas and new york getting same representations as small ones like wyoming and vermont, but also more resistant to gerrymandering, because the election covers the whole state
* though with gerrymandering, parties have to switch from having few "safe" seats to having lots of "close-enough" seats -- which some argue has hurt republicans in this election, because if enough people decide to vote differently, suddenly those "close-enough" seats flip to another party instead
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