(November 9, 2016 at 4:05 pm)Excited Penguin Wrote:(November 9, 2016 at 12:58 pm)FatAndFaithless Wrote: The electoral college would work far better (not saying it'd be perfect) if we just got rid of the first-past-the post system. The fact that someone can win a state by less than 1%, but then gets electoral votes equal to 100% of its population is like saying that half the state's desires don't matter.
It's probably done that way to differentiate between the state and the country at the political level. I don't really see how the results would be different , though, if only that were changed. Supposedly if a politician got the more majority votes from all the States then that means most people from all the states combined voted for him.
What am I missing here?
FaF is suggesting awarding the states' electoral votes in proportion to each state's popular vote. I'm very sympathetic to this idea. The way electoral votes are awarded now is an anachronism that goes back to the old days when people more closely identified as Virginians, New Yorkers, Georgians, etc. than as Americans. We shouldn't be conducting 50 fucking presidential elections every four years. It should be one national election either based on popular vote count or, if the EC is to be retained, on proportional awarding of the votes.
