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The_OD posted...

The electoral college is important to our elections.

98 votes in just 3 states as far as electoral college goes.
https://www.270towin.com/maps/bRgO6.png

By county. Between California and NY, They have a combined population of almost 60 million people.
https://metrocosm.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/election-map-by-county-3d-1.png

It would take, the top 9 most populated states: California, Texas, Florida, New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Ohio, Georgia, North Carolina, which some of them are known to be very liberal, to win where as if NC voted red, along with the other 42 other states (counting DC) would win. so if those states voted blue every single GD time, we would never have a red president. Thats why the electoral college is so important..

it gives the less dense states like : Delaware, South Dakota, North Dakota, Alaska, District of Columbia, Vermont, Wyoming more of a voice in the elections since all those states combined only has a population of 5.2 million people

Yes we get it, you don't understand how the Electoral College works and why people want to bet rid of it. You literally just described why we should get rid of the Electoral College. Because red states vs blue states is how the president is determined, not by individual votes. Do you think literally every single person in California or New York is some far left wing raging liberal? This says more about you then anything. As of right now WITH the Electoral College if you are a Republican in California your vote for President doesn't count. There are more Democrats then Republicans in the state so casting an R vote has no effect on the outcome of the race.

If we got right of the Electoral College then do you know what would happen? Your vote would count. Popular vote is the most votes wins. So all those Republicans in California who either didn't vote or their vote didn't matter, well now their vote counts towards the total votes for whatever candidate they vote for. This means their vote actually matters now, unlike before. This also shows you didn't read my previous post describing exactly why it wouldn't become some silly thing like "only the coasts will matter."

And just as a general fyi, there are just as many red states on a coast as there are blue states.

Edit: Not being able to quote just a quote in this new system sucks. I had to copy and paste andnit put the name up as undefined. It wouldn't let me change it until I posted it then I could edit the name. Further it then gets rid of the hyperlink of the name like it is for all other posts. If this is working as intended then that is completely stupid.

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