Posted on 09/29/2012 10:52:06 AM PDT by GQuagmire
WASHINGTON (AP) — When it comes to electing the president, not all votes are created equal. And chances are yours will count less than those of a select few. For example, the vote of Dave Smith in Sheridan, Wyo., counts almost 3 1/2 times as much mathematically as those of his wife's aunts in northeastern Ohio. Why? Electoral College math. A statistical analysis of the state-by-state voting-eligible population by The Associated Press shows that Wyoming has 139,000 eligible voters — those 18 and over, U.S. citizens and non-felons — for every presidential elector chosen in the state. In Ohio, it's almost 476,000 per elector, and it's nearly 478,000 in neighboring Pennsylvania. But there's mathematical weight and then there's the reality of political power in a system where the president is decided not by the national popular vote but by an 18th century political compromise: the Electoral College.
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The same principle applies to the Senate - should that also be eliminated?
They are comparing distinct and separate elections. The election in Wyoming is not the same election occurring in Ohio.
This is and absurd analysis...but the person who wrote it probably thinks it actually makes sense.
The same principle applies to the Senate - should that also be eliminated?
They are comparing distinct and separate elections. The election in Wyoming is not the same election occurring in Ohio.
This is an absurd analysis...but the person who wrote it probably thinks it actually makes sense.
Yes - yet another inaccuracy of the article. The article makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.
The Electoral College is why Communist Mass. can’t overwhelm conservative Wyo.
“Try to change our electoral college and I, for one, would be open to the idea of secession.”
Within 20-25 years, when Texas “tips over to the blue” due to demographic changes in the state that are unstoppable (something like 70%+ of all babies born in TX are to Hispanics both legal and illegal), conservatives will be moaning that the electoral college math (what happens when the 55 electoral votes in TX switch from red to blue?) makes it impossible for them to win the presidency again.
What then?
Great question.
Unfortunately, they are just finding out. No time to teach civics between grief-counseling and three, free, low-calorie meals a day. The real shame is that their teachers are just finding out, too.
If the Democrats were so concerned that the winner of the popular vote also got the most electoral votes, they could have electors on the ballot who are pledged to vote for whichever candidate has the most popular votes nation-wide (regardless of the outcome in their own state). California would be a good place to start. Of course that would still reward voter fraud if there was a close race.
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