12-19-2016, 05:39 PM
(This post was last modified: 12-19-2016, 05:45 PM by Eric the Green.)
If one person's vote is as important as another, it won't matter if that person is in a small state or a large state.
The electoral college has it charms. But it's an antiquated system set up to give slave states more influence so they'd stay in the union. But times have changed; we don't need those states in the union anymore. Let them go, so we can be free.
We still have the Senate to give small states more representation. That's more significant, and unchanging. The electoral college can work to the advantage of big states too, as it did for JFK. Small popular vote victory; big electoral vote victory. It can shift depending on how the states vote.
JFK's victory was in the days when the South voted Democratic. Now it votes Republican, which screws our country. Even so, we thought the EC was a lock for Hillary. It could have been, if the Rust Belt had kept its head.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Sta...tion,_1960
The electoral college has it charms. But it's an antiquated system set up to give slave states more influence so they'd stay in the union. But times have changed; we don't need those states in the union anymore. Let them go, so we can be free.
We still have the Senate to give small states more representation. That's more significant, and unchanging. The electoral college can work to the advantage of big states too, as it did for JFK. Small popular vote victory; big electoral vote victory. It can shift depending on how the states vote.
JFK's victory was in the days when the South voted Democratic. Now it votes Republican, which screws our country. Even so, we thought the EC was a lock for Hillary. It could have been, if the Rust Belt had kept its head.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Sta...tion,_1960