2020 Election

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(11-06-2020, 11:51 AM)Au165 Wrote: So he gets disproportionately higher voting power because of his job? Seems kind of elitist. 


The framers were struggling to navigate slavery as a young country. Madison in 1823 knew the electoral college was broke and wanted at the least to ban winner take all, but would have pushed for one person one vote if he thought viable. They knew it wasn't viable at the framing because they'd never get the south to go along with it. 

Doesn't seem elitist at all to me. What do you tell the farmer? Hey we need you to work all this land, but see those 20 people living in that apartment, they have 20 times the voting power as you.