Minority rule

[Millhouse]

(10-14-2020, 04:25 PM)fredtoast Wrote: No.  Cities have nothing to do with it.  It is about States.  When the electoral college was created the Southern States were less populated, but they all had the same economic interests.  Today the smaller states have nothing in common.  For example Rhode island and Wyoming have about the same population, but Rhode Island is all urban cities while Wyoming is mostly rural small towns. 

I am talking about back then, that the ec was created to keep the electing power balanced between the populated cities and elsewhere, mainly the south. Otherwise the President would have always come from the North via popular vote as that is where the population was, which were in the cities like Philly and New York.