11-12-2016, 10:13 PM
(11-12-2016, 10:03 PM)xxlt Wrote: Why? Why not limit or adjust the undue influence of sparse population centers?
Because there is no undue influence of sparse population centers. You're grouping them together, when said "sparse population centers" are, by definition, separated by geography and not prone to as much groupthink.
If the rest of country is 51% Repub, but CA has 10M more democratic voters...then by popular vote CA chooses your POTUS eventhough the majority of voters in EVERY OTHER STATE would have chosen differently. That's wrong.
Based on population, CA gets a % say in election of the POTUS. It's voters have an equal say in making that choice. The margin does not get exported to overturn how another state wants to choose. The people in FL get to cast a 4% or whatever say in who is POTUS, and it will remain 4% regardless of how many people 3000 miles away in CA vote Democrat.
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