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Default In defense of the electoral college

On Thu, 01 Dec 2016 15:33:21 -0000, Cindy Hamilton wrote:

On Thursday, December 1, 2016 at 9:56:54 AM UTC-5, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:

The whole country is to get one government. The whole country only ends up with one choice. If you have 50 million folk in one state and 10 million in another, why would you say the 50 million are 5 times less important?


Here's an analogy. You've got a guy who's the proverbial
90-pound weakling and another guy who's a 250-pound bruiser.
Should the big guy always get his way?

The Electoral College is a bit like handicapping a horse race.

Cindy Hamilton


How are two people of different weights anything to do with numbers of people? Why would you equate a city of 2 million folk as the same importance as a city of 1 million folk? The only sensible way to do votes is for every individual person to count for the same as everyone else.

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