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HornedLion posted...

Me and my coworker already went there. I told him that the electoral college is a dumb relic that needs to be no more. And he said there was a very important reason for it, and then neglected to inform me of that reason. Instead he went somewhere else.

Thats another pattern Ive noticed about these folks. They can never stay on one topic. They immediately jump to others. They just recite GOP talking points without knowing what they actually mean.

The best justification that I've heard is that it mitigates the ability for urban areas (which have higher population densities) to overpower rural areas, since people's priorities tend to differ based on what sort of work they do (which, in turn, tends to differ by area). Rather than risking having a bunch of unhappy farmers whose voice is never heard over that of the IT folks that crowd into cities, the farmers get more weight to their votes to attempt to balance it out.

Now, is that accomplished by the current state of the electoral college? Couldn't tell you. Probably not, given the tendency toward gerrymandering and football politics over addressing real issues. But that's the theory, and I don't think that theory is entirely without merit.

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