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Corrik, let's not pretend you're some paragon of virtue, above partisanship. You're arguing in favor of the electoral college because it's designed in such a way that it disproportionately benefits your ideology.

There is zero argument in favor of the electoral college that doesn't revolve around empowering the minority party against the will of the majority party. There's zero reason for the states to have more of a say than the people, since the states are arbitrarily decided and no longer represent a collective culture. Wyoming is the reddest state in the country, right? And the smallest population. What if Wyoming decided to split into five different states? Suddenly they go from 3 votes in the electoral college to 15, despite each "state" representing fewer people than the capital city of Connecticut.

The fact is that the electoral college overwhelmingly favors the states rather than the will of the people, and to anyone unbiased and not benefiting from the current system, it's broken. It's especially bad because the original intent of the electoral college was for each state's delegation to represent the collective will of their state. But this has been twisted into everything just being in service to a national political party.

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