I don't think he undermined it entirely, but one of his premises was that focusing on just the largest population centers was a bad idea. But a slight shift in how we define those areas shows that it might be possible to reach a majority of voters by visiting only a relatively small number of places.
I think his overall point has merit. I also think that if we did away with the EC, we would still wind up with areas that were reliably blue or red, and that there would still be battleground states that would get the majority of attention. I no longer think that abolishing it would be a bad option. I think it's almost impossible for that to happen, though.
I think his overall point has merit. I also think that if we did away with the EC, we would still wind up with areas that were reliably blue or red, and that there would still be battleground states that would get the majority of attention. I no longer think that abolishing it would be a bad option. I think it's almost impossible for that to happen, though.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
