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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLadies and Gentlemen, witnesses and patriots, rambling before you is Supreme evidence
that the Electoral Collage is a massive failure and destructive to our republic.
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Ladies and Gentlemen, witnesses and patriots, rambling before you is Supreme evidence (Original Post)
Ninga
Jan 2019
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SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)1. Thank you
Ninga
(8,275 posts)2. "All By Myself....."
Good fucking grief.......
Ninga
(8,275 posts)3. If this display doesn't result in The Hook, then nothing will.......
Buckeyeblue
(5,499 posts)4. The problem is is the proportions are wrong
For instance Wyoming makes up .18% of the US population but gets 3 electoral votes, which makes up .5% of the electoral college. While California makes up over 12% of the US population but its 55 electoral votes makes up just over 10% of the electoral college. Wyoming is over represented and California is under.
Ninga
(8,275 posts)5. However you slice it...it still is a bad deal for the value that majority rules.
dalton99a
(81,515 posts)6. Definitely not what the founding fathers intended
They certainly didn't want electors to be rubber stamps
Ninga
(8,275 posts)7. Except there is no fixing it....what an f ing mess.......nt