Wyoming could have been blue.
Yeah, it could have been blue if the 174,000 Republican voters had voted Democrat, right? More than 3/4 of voters voted Republican.
In fact 1996 was the last time a Republican got less than 60% in the state, Bob Dole got 49.8% mainly because of Ross Perot. In fact they've voted Republican like every single time as far back as I can tell.
Then, maybe, not the electoral collage but the Democrats deserve the blame. It´s not God given.
What? Did you not get the point of this?
The Republicans could get the same amount of votes as the Democrats and the Republicans will win EVERY TIME. How is this the fault of the Democrats? For not having smaller states? What?
It is still accidental and could have been the other way round. Also, why has that not been changed already. Isn´t new, right?
Well, that the Republicans have an advantage wasn't done for the reason of making it easier for the Republicans, however it's what it is, and it's not fair.
Actually it's not fair because FPTP is negative voting. In Germany they have FPTP and PR, PR is positive. 10% of people vote smaller parties in PR and the larger parties in FPTP.
FPTP leads to the large parties doing well, it leads to less choice, as in the US had two parties and that's it, whereas in countries with PR, 5 seems to be the lowest amount of parties I've seen in an election that got into govt. In a country of 300 million people and more, it hardly seems that two ideas should hog the whole of politics.