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Posted by Spider-Pig on Thu Mar 21 17:19:26 2019, in response to Re: When An Election Doesn't Go the People's Way, posted by Spider-Pig on Tue Mar 19 17:53:04 2019. For those people who still think the Electoral College prevents New York and Los Angeles from winning every election:Still, you might argue, the Electoral College keeps large states from dominating small ones. If there were no such system, campaigns could win by focusing all their attention on the largest states. As a matter of math, that is unlikely. In 2016, New York, California, Texas and Florida cast about 35 million ballots, roughly a quarter of the total 137 million. Even if you somehow won every single one of those ballots, you’d still have to campaign elsewhere for tens of millions more votes, assuming a 50 percent threshold. Take the total of 2016 presidential votes in the 10 largest states, and you’d get only 71 million ballots, or about 52 percent of the vote. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/21/opinion/electoral-college-warren-trump.html |
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