The phrase "outside California" continues to be invalid, and there is no way to make it valid. Because "outside California" -- "outside the Deep South" --- "outside the Midwest" etc etc etc --- are
all "outside the definition of the United States". It's no different from "if we hadn't given up those six home runs in the fifth inning we win this game" --- whelp ... you DID give 'em up, and that's why you LOST. You don't get to pick and choose which parts of the game you like and discard the ones you don't. PERIOD.
Pop quiz --- in the phrase "United States of America" ----
what's the first word?
This is yet another attempt to divide and conquer. "Without this". "Without that". *******
bullshit.
Let California
---- and all states ---- send their vote proportionally to the will of the People. That gives, in this case at present count, 34 California EVs for Clinton and 19 for Rump.
Stop dividing people up already.
Did you catch the fact that your "solution" made the situation ever MORE "undemocratic" than the E-college is now?
A state that goes overwhelmingly for a blue candidate has to SHARE E-votes with the underachievers? That's gonna be a hard sell to take E-Votes from the 4 or 5 states that are huge and blue. I predict the left will mock and scorn you until the end of time for that "idea"...
Not sure I follow you here.
Of course a "blue" state would have to "share". EVERY state would. If you don't do that, you have the same slap-in-the-face we live under now. Something like six million people in California and New York voted for Rump, yet they will get *ZERO* representation from their state electors.
Somebody explain to me
why that should be.
My state was a so-called "battleground" (< another bullshit term invented by the EC system) --- meaning it wasn't 'locked' or clear who was going to win it. As it turned out Rump won it narrowly ---- and yet my state is going to send
all fifteen of its electors to vote for Rump, as if we were silly enough to vote unanimously. In a state that goes from ocean to Appalachia, urban, suburban and rural, we all voted for the same guy.
Somebody justify that for me. ANYBODY.
Again, I don't give a flying shit whether that benefits a "left" here or a "right" there. It's a fair and equitable system I'm after.
Anyway this is all staying within the context of having an Electrical College --- if you work within the system but apportion proportionally --- that's how it works out, i.e. 62% of 55 = 34. Simple math. And that is, given the recent results that we have, which are not necessarily the results we get if we knowingly run the election this way.