Everyone knows what the founders intended, but that was a very long time ago, things change and when they do outdated policy should be examined. I think the amount per state is really fucked up. North Carolina has 15 but Louisiana only has 8. Ohio has 20, Wisconsin only has 10. It needs to be reexamined. I also believe it's stupid that Louisiana has 2 senators and California has 2 senators, if your argument is that states should have a say based on their population you can't say one is right and the other isn't unless you are just partisan. I never said scrap it but I think those numbers per state should change.
JC did you see the graphic. If you kill the EC then 3 or 4 states decide the presidency. It's not outdated, it does exactly what it's supposed to do.
I think it needs to be looked at. For example North Carolina and Ohio have pretty similar populations and Ohio has 20 electoral votes North Carolina has 15. Why?
Here's a quick, dirty analysis of the EC. I went back to 1992 because that's 24 years; roughly a generation, and its the first time Cali - the most powerful state in EC votes, went Democrat in its current trend.... For 7 straight elections, the 3 West Coast states plus Hawaii have gone Democrat - 78 votes as of this year Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, North and South Dakota, Kansas, Oklahoma - straight GOP - 32 votes Minnesota and Illinois - Democrat - 30 votes In the deep South - Mississippi, Alabama and South Carolina all go GOP - 24 votes On the East Coast and New England - DC, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, Vermont and Maine are Democrat - 88 votes All other states have flip-flopped their presidental votes at least once in the last 7 elections If current trends continue, that means we can assume the 2020 election begins with Democrats holding a 196-56 advantage in the EC. So why is it that only Democrats bitch that the thing is unfair when they lose?
Electoral votes follow the state's representation in Congress. The states draw their own Congressional districts, and currently, NC is drawn for much larger populations per district than Ohio - 772,000 per district in NC compared to 728,000 in Ohio. The national average is 737,000 per district. (this is all from Wikipedia). It would take some serious gerrymandering to create a perfect division of districts. Montana, for example, has just over a million people but the state is its own Congressional district.
