Outside of California, Trump won the popular vote.
That's the most pathetic nonargument in the entire thread. "If we just hadn't given up those six touchdowns we coulda wont the game!" Poster please. Cry me a river.
One state doesn't get to be over represented. They had 55 EC votes, and Hillary won them all.
"One state" gets the same representation basis as every other state does. ANY state. You just continue to whine because there's a state that sees things differently from you, so you want to wipe them off the map. Whelp -- **** you.
And btw Hillary didn't "win them all", she won X number of votes compared to Y number for Rump. It's the state of Califonia ---- and 47 other states ---- who decide to award all of their EVs to whoever comes out on top, as if everybody in that state who voted differently should have just stayed home. And *THAT* is the main problem with the EC. And it's not because the Constitution calls for it --- it's because the
states do. So take your whining to fifty state legislatures and put it where it will do some good so we can stop sending millions of voters home saying "you suck, your vote didn't even count, BUH-bye now", willya?
It's also quite stupid to assume if it was a popular vote, that the results would had been the same. Republicans wouldn't stay home in states like CA ad NY, and there would be millions more red votes.
It would be, and nobody's assuming that so it's equally stupid to make a strawman out of it. Had the system been a straight PV, obviously *both* (actually ALL) candidates would have campaigned differently. They'd go wherever they had a chance to win voters over. Hillary for instance might have gone to Alaska. (Nobody goes to Alaska or Hawaìi because they have the EV already parceled out. That's how little their votes count.)
But yes there would be millions more "red" votes as well as millions more "blue" ones. That's another effect of the EC as it's implemented ---- it discourages voting
at all in most states because hey, the state EV is already decided and whether you agree or disagree with the state, or just stay home, the individual voter's action mean absolutely jack squat nothing bupkis zero. So those millions of voters have no reason to go vote, and they know it.
Trump said if it was a popular vote the candidates would spend most of their time in NY and CA.
Rump has never been a politician. Hell, he's never even held a job. The conclusion is a non sequitur anyway --- Rump might spend time in California yes, and he already LIVES IN and GREW UP IN New York, so it's hardly necessary --- but that's only because he's way behind in both.
What's far more likely is that Rump goes to say, Massachusetts, and Hillary goes to West Virginia and Rump goes to Minnesota and Hillary to Kansas ----- places where they don't now bother to go because the ******* EV system automatically locks them into being "Blue" or "Red" states, ergo the "Red" and "Blue" candidates
don't bother to contest, hence those voters never see or hear from the other side, hence they just keep on doing what they've always done, for no other reason THAN that's what they've always done, and for yet another year you have "red" and "blue" states which is a completely bogus bullshit term that would not exist without the Electoral College system that CREATES those divisions.
And that's --- say it with me now ---- yet another effect of the Electrical College; it not only creates artificial bullshit divisions all over the country but it
perpetuates those divisions and the Duopoly system that keeps this country mired in a binary bullshit paradigm.
Even in the red states in middle America, more would come out knowing all their votes counted.
As they would
everywhere, in ALL states, if the EC system didn't just toss their vote in the trash can --- because these artificial bullshit terms "red state" and "blue state" and "swing state" --------
would not exist. It's only this arcane wackadoodle EC system that creates them and keeps this country mired in a primitive, binary, artificially-divided shit-world of Duopoly where we keep doing the same thing over and over expecting different results.