Send to a Friend
Do you think that a few counties in 9 states should dominate presidential electoral outcomes?
)
January 2nd, 2019
Half the US population lives in nine states-CA, TX, FL, PA, MI, OH, IL, NY, GA. And within those states, the population is concentrated into just a few counties- Kings, Cook, Miami Dade, Cayuhoga etc. You know this from the TV coverage of elections.
I assume that the people on this site who gripe about the electoral college probably live in those states and think that they ought to own the show.
But there are 41 states that comprise the other half of the population. Without the electoral college, and based strictly on popular vote, the people in those states could theoretically have nothing to say about a presidential election outcome.
Why shouldn’t those states be included as well?
Using Fluther
or
