Voting Rights for DC and Other Federal Territories

One issue that could be integrated in the Democratic 2006 platform is voting rights for DC, PR, Guam, etc.  It could be used to portray us as fair and as equalizers, and if done right, shouldn't be very controversial.

We could (in the form of Constitutional Amendment) give DC 2 representatives in Congress and give overseas territories either 5 or 10 representatives.  The 2 representatives from DC would temporarily increase the House to 437 members, and (using 10) the overseas territories would increase that to 447 members.  At the next reapportionment in 2010, the number would be either reduced to 445 or increased to 450.

Rammifications of this would be beneficial to us, as DC is solidly Democratic (90-9 Kerry) and Puerto Rico, which would likely gain the most of the overseas reps, would be a Dem stronghold too.  I don't know as much about Guam, but I would guess that it would go Dem too.  We could gain 15 seats in the house!  Another effect would be that the number of electoral votes would go down to 536 (because DC's EVs would stay and its reps would come from some other state.)

Possible negatives:

Democrats percieved as giving representation to foreigners, or a "representation without taxation" scenario.  We would have to frame the debate about equality (perhaps we could tax the territories too, and lower the deficit (or not))