Posted on 08/13/2020 5:35:30 PM PDT by 11th_VA
We are a nation of states.
That a hard truth, but nevertheless it is true.
Some states have a ton of people, and others few, so the Constitution balanced it with 2 senators for each state, but many representatives as populations grew in states.
Is it fair to Kentucky that California gets 55 House seats and they get only 6?
Ditto
Popular Vote-socialist/communist
I thought this would be bitching about California.
Nothing could tip the result in DC, which is smaller than NH and shouldn’t have electors. What an idiotic complaint. “DC voters have no power cause they all vote the same way!!! Would you like to buy some cookies for our field trip? Teacher wants to take us special political analysts to the zoo!!!!”
Where’s an article on the tyranny of one or two urban centers on entire states ? Illinois, Oregon, Washington, Pennsylvania, Colorado, Delaware, Hawaii, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Wisconsin, etc...
I have been able, on social occasions, use this as a verbal club to bash leftist assholes repeatedly when they play race games.
Yet in the end, it serves the same purpose.
It takes the race card and rips it up in tiny pieces right in front of their faces.
Priceless.
No cookies and no EVs.
A year back I noticed one of their top editors who follows the US wrote an editorial and didn't know that Blumenthal was once mayor of New York.
That's the kind of "informed" minds who write for the Economist.
And even if he didn't personally own slaves, he lived in an era when other white guys did and didn't do anything about it.
The Economist changed into The Communist years ago. I’m surprised they haven’t bought the mummified remains of Mugabe and made him editor-in-chief.
Even doing something about it doesn't get you off the hook with these doofuses. They've been tearing statues of abolitionists! [eyeroll]
California would be the opposite effect, wouldn't it? The reason the state gets a HUGE chuck on the electoral vote is because of the large number of minorities (the white population has been shrinking for decades, I believe?) and that's also the reason the state is "safe Dem" at the presidential level. Minorities get a HUGE influence in electoral college due to California, non-minorities in California have zero effect on the outcome due to the "winner take all" system. They might as well not vote, because stuff like "McCain won a bigger number of votes in California than any other state in the nation" amount to zilch when the electoral college votes. All a candidate needs to do to carry California is win the minority vote in the state, and a handful of white voters.
A much better example would be Texas. If they wanted to bitch about the electoral college "disenfranchising" minorities, that would be their best example. Basically the same reason why: it's "winner take all" in that state, so large portions of Texas have millions of people whose "votes don't count", and those are all minority districts. The Texas panhandle being heavily hispanic and overwhelmingly voting RAT, and Houston-area districts being heavily black and having no effect on the outcome, to cite two examples. They can vote RAT all they want, and Texas will still cast every single one of its electoral votes for the Republican presidential candidate. Minorities in Texas have no effect on the outcome for president unless they plan to vote in the GOP primaries.
In both cases, the "solution" is not to abolish the electoral college, but go with my proposed reform of allocating electoral votes by congressional district instead of "winner take all", where Clinton gets 42% in a state and gets every single one of their electoral votes.
I’m for whatever helps the party win and against whatever helps the communists.
Romney would have won under the CD plan, IIRC. (not taking into consideration that he’s a RINO pig)
Nebraska-2 continues to disgust me. It voted for rat candidates for statewide office in 2018 (all of whom lost decisively), Rep. Bacon narrowly beat a Berner progtard. He’d have lost a rematch against his predecessor (who lost the primary to the Berner.)
Thankfully the progtard was renominated and Bacon should win. But it’s still one the most vulnerable Trump electoral votes and could plausibly decide the election. NE Leg should have got rid of that crap after Obama carried in in ‘08. And they REALLY need to redraw it. NE-3 is one of the most Republican seats in the country, votes being wasted that could secure NE-1, ridiculous.
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