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Broadcast on March 6, 2019

[lazysloth]

America... a country where you can lose and still win.

[mikepublic]

California
Population: 39, 558, 000
Electors: 55
Wyoming
Population: 577, 800
Electors: 3
Wyoming has one elector for each 192, 600 people.
California has one elector for each 719, 236 people.
Because of the electoral college, one voter in Wyoming has the same electoral power as 3.73 voters in California.
Why should a vote in Wyoming be over three times more powerful than a vote in California?

[AE-ixiz]

I mean it makes sense. Why should land acreage get more voting power than an American citizen?

[billbuffalino]

David, you’re wrong about the original purpose of the college. The electoral college was never created to cater to small states. It was created to cater to southern agrarian states with large slave populations.

Ever heard of the infamous 3/5 compromise, where a Slave counted as three fifths of a person? That ties into the electoral college. Southern states had few free men who could vote compared to the northern states, but if you counted slaves, the southern states’ populations rivaled the norths.

If we had a popular vote where only free men voted, the south realized they would be overpowered in every election, so they created a compromise where each slave wouldn’t count as a whole person, but 3/5 of a person. This would artificially inflate the number of representatives these states got in the house, which lead to these states getting more electoral votes. It blows my mind that people on the left aren’t seizing on the fact that our shitty electoral system is a product of America’s dark past.

Now that slavery is long gone, our problem isn’t so much that there is an imbalance of electors between the states (even though such a balance does exist), our problem is that every state is winner take all. Meaning it doesn’t matter if you win a state with 51% of the vote or 90% of the vote, you get all the electoral votes of that state. This ends up creating swing states and leaving tons of democrats in red states (and republicans in blue states) disenfranchised. Winner take all is the reason why you can win while losing the popular vote.

[melanietaylor]

So glad you are talking about this. I live in Georgia and feel like my vote never counts. Nobody seems to be talking about it. Thank you. Keep it going.

[Berbs]

In other words... When the electoral college was enacted, the people in the south with large plantations would not have to worry about those pesky cities. 🙄

[huibwetzel]

END IT ! YOUR VOTE IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN THE ELECTORAL VOTE !

[ericsarnoski]

I sure hope it sweeps the nation. It should have ended a 100 years ago. The principle behind its creation was obsolete once the automobile made transportation issues a moot point. It's not like we need two days by horse and buggy along rutted trails to get to the nearest town to cast our vote.

[TheSeeker]

Bush also lost the electoral college in 2000 but that's another story lol

[KristianKumpula]

Imagine how much progress wouldn't have been reverted and prevented during this millenium if America were an actual democracy where the one who gets the most votes wins.

[MrBlaktoe]

Kansas is out. Died in committee last year. We *did* just get a Dem governor so maybe that changes things a bit.

[unclebs]

Only a Republican would argue against every single persons vote being counted.

[llongone]

Doing away with the electoral college would be the greatest thing to happen in American elections...maybe ever. That's why it would never happen, of maybe I should say "be allowed to happen". If the electoral college disappeared, there would never be a Republican president again.

[spartandud]

The electoral college was actually established because there wasn't really a way in the 18th century to safe and efficient way count and communicate the votes. Of course now that concern is irrelevant.

[jarodstrain]

The Oddity in many states like Texas and Florida is that their demographics would tend to be democratically voting States. Reason they are not because of concerted efforts to limit voter turnout.

[XenomorphsWrath]

At this point just throw it all out and go for direct votes. No state devision, no electors, nothing. Just Aunt May putting a cross on a paper / electronic device. Nationwide popular vote if you will.

[johnjones]

This would be awesome! Finally our votes will matter! Our voices will be heard!

[kevinarzola]

Actually Kyle, the reason the electoral college was founded, was because the south was outnumbered by the north. The north relied less on slavery and the south feared slavery would be taken away if we were to go by population. If we voted based on popular vote, the south would have lost just about every single time.

Just look this stuff up my guy. That whole rural vs urban or big cities vs small is total bs.

[charlesstalcup]

I wish they would do away with the Electoral College

[auntymammalia]

Why can't we update our Constitution? It's over 200 years old.