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re: What is the argument for the electoral college instead of a popular vote?
Posted on 11/8/16 at 10:41 am to TheCaterpillar
Posted on 11/8/16 at 10:41 am to TheCaterpillar
You can win the EC count without winning popular vote. It's meant to give a voice to all states instead of just the few with the highest population centers.
Posted on 11/8/16 at 10:41 am to FooManChoo
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You can win the EC count without winning popular vote. It's meant to give a voice to all states instead of just the few with the highest population centers.
Posted on 11/8/16 at 10:42 am to FooManChoo
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You can win the EC count without winning popular vote. It's meant to give a voice to all states instead of just the few with the highest population centers.
this is your winner
would you want California & New York basically deciding every election?
Posted on 11/8/16 at 10:42 am to FooManChoo
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It's meant to give a voice to all states instead of just the few with the highest population centers.
But those states with higher populations get more EC votes anyway.
Its not like it would be a big swing, right?
I guess I just feel like it isn't really fair to people in states that never vote outside of their red/blue ways.
Posted on 11/8/16 at 10:42 am to FooManChoo
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It's meant to give a voice to all states instead of just the few with the highest population centers.
semi fail on that though
Posted on 11/8/16 at 1:00 pm to FooManChoo
quote:I'm not so sure this math checks out these days. CA & NY have 18% of the population (2014 #s), and 16% of the electoral votes. That's pretty close - and instead of taking 18% of the country's population and having it split up amongst a true representative picture (let's conservatively say 2/1, or 12% D and 6% R), you instead will have 16% of the votes going to D and 0% R.
You can win the EC count without winning popular vote. It's meant to give a voice to all states instead of just the few with the highest population centers.
If this is supposed to give more of a voice to the other 48 states, I think it does the opposite. The rest of us have to overcome a 16-point deficit, as opposed to only being 6 points in the hole with my 2/1 estimate.
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