flacaltenn
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That is a straw man argument. It’s not about the cities, it’s about the 50 United States. There were several factors why our founders preferred the electoral system. One factor- electoral college was a compromise made by the largely populated states to the smaller states in order to appease the concern from the small states about being controlled by the voters in other states.
Here is a link which will help the OP understand what the founders were thinking. Read it, and burn your straw man while you’re at it.
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The current use of the electoral college bears no resemblance to what the founders set up,
The flaw in the current use of the electoral college is that almost all the states award all the electoral votes to the winning candidate, no matter how small a margin he or she won the state by.
Well you might be mathematically challenged if you can't see that PROPORTIONING the e-votes is almost redundant to a straight pop vote. It's just a more inaccurate popular vote if you do that. Except in the states with ONLY 1 or 3 e-votes. Then ---- the fun begins and the VOTE becomes HIGHLY inaccurate under proportioning. Especially with the FOUR party system that this nation OUGHT to have.
Wow do I wish we had at least 4 legitimate parties to choose from!
You have almost ZERO at the moment. So there's LOTS of room for improvement.
Dem party is split, Repub party is split. But because of the duopoly, 1/2 the party membership is disenfranchised at any one time. .