re: Why don’t states use an electoral college style system for elections?

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It's difficult to accept when the other team has more of them

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And so goes the GoP. They've won the popular vote twice since Reagan... once was HW Bush who was riding Reagan's coattails and won it (but didn't even win a second term) and Little Bush won it in his second term still riding the wave of post-9/11 patriotism and unification of the country after a tragedy.

So they take that information and instead of adjusting their platform to become more popular they not only double down, they make themselves even MORE polarizing and say the RULES are the problem

Because states were never founded as a collection of counties.

for a century, Texas DID have legislative Districts which protected rural interests. Feds shut it down as unconstitutional in the 1970s.

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Why don’t states use an electoral college style system for elections?
In Georgia, we used to have an extreme version known as the county unit system for statewide primaries, which effectively was the general due to Dem dominance. It was killed by SCOTUS in the 60s.

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Basically, it gave the rural counties nearly all of the leverage:

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Under the county unit system, the 159 counties in Georgia were divided by population into three categories. The largest eight counties were classified as "Urban", the next-largest 30 counties were classified as "Town", and the remaining 121 counties were classified as "Rural". Urban counties were given 6 unit votes, Town counties were given 4 unit votes, and Rural counties were given 2 unit votes, for a total of 410 available unit votes. Each county's unit votes were awarded on a winner-take-all basis.

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That's interesting. Did not know that.

"I'd go for that. Would prevent big city Dems from choosing state leaders despite never seeing an unpaved road."


.... not necessarily, because if you use the federal electoral college as an example, the larger counties or parishes would have many more electoral votes than the smaller ones. The same reason Vermont has 3 electoral votes and Texas has 38. If you are not going to use population totals to determine electoral votes, than which calculation would be used?

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I like each county gets one vote.

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It is not a “rigged” system in any way. It is the absolute best system for our type of country and one of the few things that should never be tampered with. I agree it makes no sense on a state level and really anybody advocating for it on a state level are just butt hurt that they are losing elections. On a national level however it is pretty much the best system available. We aren’t one large borderless country so the popular vote makes zero sense to go by. We are a collection of states and states matter. All states should have some power but not equal power which is exactly what we have. That’s why it doesn’t make sense on the state level because counties don’t really matter.

We were never meant to be a pure/direct democracy with a straight popular vote, as a matter of fact the founding fathers added many safeguards against it and what they called the “tyranny of the majority” which they correctly regarded just as dangerous as the tyranny of a king. Left leaning people or anybody that complains about the EC are just as butt hurt as those conservatives who don’t like major cities running entire states. Both don’t like systems that currently don’t favor them but are both completely logical systems to use.

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It's difficult to accept when the other team has more of them

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Republicans had 6 million more votes than dems last Tuesday

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Why do you want them to be over-represented?

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so nola doesnt get to improse its values on the rest of the state.

its frickign stupid we dont.