(November 11, 2016 at 10:53 am)Tiberius Wrote:(November 11, 2016 at 10:08 am)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: Well, I suppose that in theory every political decision could be made by referendum. Is that a good thing?
That's irrelevant to the point we are discussing. The president is an elected representative for the whole country, therefore the entire country should have a fair and equal say in electing him/her. If one person has more of a vote than another, that's unfair, plain and simple.
Again on your point about cities, I just don't see it being backed up by facts. Look at a county map of Texas. Clinton won in all the major cities in Texas. Trump won in most of the rural areas. So Clinton won Texas right? No, she lost it by almost a million votes.
You need rural areas to win the presidency in a popular vote. You can't do it with just the cities.
States have the option to apportion their results according to the popular vote. Any State could do so but they don't. The dominant party of those States wants their party's candidate to get them all. Sure they want it on a national scale I.e. on other states but they won't do that for the people in their own state.
