- Foremost I sincerely pray that I'm as wrong about Trump's governance as I was about his electablity.
- The pollsters are hiding behind the shreds of being within the margin of error on the popular vote while being buck naked wrong on several very key states.
- The next time the media gives someone a couple of billion dollars of free media to chose try and chose a fall guy they should be more careful what they wish for.
- The electoral college giving more weight to smaller states is a feature not a bug, we should be prepared to defend it.
Wednesday, November 9, 2016
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The electoral college is indefensible. It is merely a preference, not a clearly better choice based on any objective measure. I can see no reason why small state need or deserve special protection in a republic that no longer has state representation and where the citizens can freely move from one state to another at will and instantly be accepted as citizens of their new state.
ReplyDeleteWell if you want to change it you're going to need to get 3/5 of those states which includes a lot of small ones to agree to it. I suppose your perspective would depend on where you live and whether you'd have preferred 2000 and 2016 to have gone differently.
DeleteAs for no reason I'd say it short ciruts the game theory that the perfect tryany would be to have no more or less than 51% of the population on your side and the remaining 49% providing all the support. By complicating that system, it makes such harder and helps keep some shreds of states rights alive.
Without the EC the smaller states have no value to the politicians. Another way of saying it how many small states does it take to equal the vote value of Southern Calif or the NY-NJ-Conn chunk of voters?
ReplyDeleteThat's the nightmare, complete balkanization by only focusing on the highest concentration of votes.
DeleteModern data mining makes that bad enough already.