by SoxIlliniRob Tue May 08, 2018 3:53 pm
It's not just Utah and Wyoming. It's all of the less populated states. It adds up to something pretty significant. Maybe it's one or two electoral votes too many in Utah, but it's also 10, 20, or 50 too few in Texas, NY, Illinois, Penn, or Calif. Just one or two states doesn't really add up to much. Once you put the Dakotas and Montana and utah and Idaho and 15 or so other states together, you have about 40% of the country's population with about 50% of the electoral college power. Or better yet, if you were to assign the same value of a vote to people in the bigger states, you'd suddenly have the winner needing about 400 Electoral votes from a pool of 799 or so (hypothetically).
I'm not so against the electoral college as I am against the improper assigning of electoral votes in a non-proportional manner according to population. I can't help but believe that one person = one vote is a pretty simple concept to sell to the masses.
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