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The electoral college absolutely does matter and absolutely does favor right wing politicians (for now). Every state gets a minimum of three electoral votes re

The electoral college absolutely does matter and absolutely does favor right wing politicians (for now). Every state gets a minimum of three electoral votes regardless of their population, so as a result, a single vote in a sparsely populated state like Wyoming has up to four times the influence that a single vote in a densely populated state like NJ has. The current political make-up of the country is such that right-wing politicians find far greater support in rural areas and thus are favored by the electoral college. So far only right-wing politicians have managed to win the electoral college without winning a majority in the popular vote. Similar logic applies to the Senate: regardless of population every state gets two senators. Right-wing senators have received fewer actual votes (by individual voters) than left-wing senators for years, yet in that time right-wing control of the senate has been more common than left-wing control. Right now the split in the Senate is 50-50 (Vice President, a Democrat, breaks the tie) but the total number of votes cast for Democratic senators was much higher than the number cast for Republicans. You literally have to deny reality when you deny that the electoral college and the senate represent a structural advantage for Republicans right now.

fjabre 6y ago
Reality is that the Dems own the entire congress and the presidency right now. Reality is we are representative democracy. The forefathers deliberately designed it that way. Reality must line up with your arguments. It does not. If what you say is true, Trump would most likely be president right now. Dems own entire cities with the largest population centers. Dems have better organized grassroots. Dems have California and New York, the main stream media. What advantages you speak of are moot compared to those ones. We are a representative democracy and we always have been.

fjabre 6y ago

Reality is that the Dems own the entire congress and the presidency right now. Reality is we are representative democracy. The forefathers deliberately designed it that way. Reality must line up with your arguments. It does not. If what you say is true, Trump would most likely be president right now. Dems own entire cities with the largest population centers. Dems have better organized grassroots. Dems have California and New York, the main stream media. What advantages you speak of are moot compared to those ones. We are a representative democracy and we always have been.