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The electoral college actually favored Biden this time. He got 57% of EC votes, which is much higher than his share of the popular vote. This is all pointless
by nostromo 6y ago
The electoral college actually favored Biden this time. He got 57% of EC votes, which is much higher than his share of the popular vote.
This is all pointless anyway for a union of states. Germany is underpowered compared to Luxembourg in the EU by design -- the same is true in the US. Should California ever go back to being conservative, as it was until Clinton, it will disadvantage Republicans just the same.
- triceratops 6y ago> The electoral college actually favored Biden this time I think we're operating on different definitions of "favored". The definition I'm using (and which most of the English-speaking world uses) is "have a fundamental advantage". He won the electoral college narrowly. He won the popular vote handsomely. That's a sign of a thumb on the scale in a pretty fundamental way.
- nostromo 6y ago> He won the electoral college narrowly. He won the popular vote handsomely. He didn't though. He won 57% of the electoral vote and 51% of the popular vote.
- triceratops 6y agoAnother way of looking at it though, is he won the electoral college by a margin of 40k votes (the margin of victory in the states that mattered). He won the popular vote by a margin of 7m votes.
- gowld 6y agoYou're a pretty famous person, so we know you are smart enough to know that nothing above 50% matters. "Favor" only matters to extent it helps a candidate get over 270 EV.
- triceratops 6y agoSorry, you're saying the US should be more like the EU?