jtdavis posted:Not one of you challenged my posted numbers, so I assume you think they are right. Will any of you tell me why it's fair for one California electoral vote to represent 678,945 people and one Wyoming electoral vote represents 189,433 people? Why should I not feel that is just another type of gerrymandering?
Jt, your numbers are irrelevant; the electoral system is a known process and both candidates campaigned accordingly to the known rules of presidential elections. If the total number mattered then both candidates would have spent all their time in only the most populated states and the numbers would probably be much different. Republicans would have spent much more on get out the vote initiatives in California, New York, and Illinois that they usually cede to Dems and probably some of the 90 million people who didn't vote because they are overwhelmed in Dem states would have gone to the polls.
I would also note that the founders set up the system because they chose to create a republic and not a democracy because they feared that a democracy was a guaranteed crash and burn: