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Stop worrying and start loving the Electoral College
- bediger4000 6y agoMore like "Believe my straw man and keep the status quo".
- sova 6y agoThat's quite a cynical summary, and the key insight is that any group could move to more sparsely populated areas and influence the election in their favor. Would you really want the election decided by the 5 most populous cities every time?
- bediger4000 6y agoMaybe. I live in Denver, CO. Arguably, I have 1 2/9 electoral college votes. The population is about 600,000.\ Wyoming has 3 electoral college votes and has a total population of 567,000. So about equal populations. Why does a Wyoming vote count for more than 2x mine in the Electoral college? Would you really want the election to be decided by a lot less than half the votes? Every other election is direct. I don't have an "electoral college" analog for my gubernatorial vote, city council vote, mayoral vote. Should all those have some intermediary to keep power in the hands of some minority, too? Clearly disenfranchising better than half the population is not the way to go. Note that there are solutions other than "bulk population migrations" even for the rusted hulk of the Electoral College. Have enough Representatives, and the popular vote/electoral college vote can even out. It's the artificially low number of Representatives that's at least part of the problem. The German Bundestag has 709 members now. We can have a bigger House. The number of House seats is statutory, not constitutional.
- gravy 6y agoDon't the heads of state for the EU decide who the EU council president is? Should each head of state's vote be given equal weight considering the vast differences in population of each EU country?