(November 9, 2016 at 9:12 pm)abaris Wrote:(November 9, 2016 at 9:09 pm)mh.brewer Wrote: As a hick from land locked NE I like the electoral college system. It helps to level the playing field for less populous states. We will never have the population of a coastal state.
Don't you consider yourself as one country? I mean, we also have a federal system with 9 different states having their own governments. But the popular votes are counted towards an overall reasult. State elections are held on a different day in different years. They don't follow the same cycles as the federal elections. Pretty much the same system they have in Germany.
Did you read the link? Electoral college has nothing to do with state elections. The only problem with the electoral college is the winner take all states. NE is not in that category.
Look at it as similar to the House and Senate. Each state gets 2 senators, each state gets house reps based on population. Senators for CA = 2, NE = 2.
House Reps for CA = 53, NE = 3. It works the same for the electoral college.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_...ed_States)
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