jtdavis posted:Dire, Best and Jack: Per the 2010 census head count California had 37,341,989 population and 55 electoral votes. This equals 678,945 people per electoral vote.
Wyoming had 568,300 population and 3 electoral votes, this equals 189,433 people per electoral vote.
What is fair about that? Jack, what did I miss? Dire, those numbers are reality.
JT. the electoral college is a compromise, like the Senate and House in Congress to protect small states from being completely overruled by large states. A representative from a small state often represents fewer persons than a representative from a large state. In the Senate, each state has two senators, so the states are equal in that house. Each state has the number of electors equal to the number of the senators and representatives.