10-14-2020, 04:42 PM
(10-14-2020, 04:36 PM)Millhouse Wrote: 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.
Correct.
But that is not the case now. Now some of the smallest states by population, like Rhode Island, are all large urban cities.
This is another reason the electoral college does not make as much sense any more.
