The popular vote is supposed to not matter, for a reason.
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This quote is on my top ten list of ignorant republican quotes and if I knew how to do it, I would make put it on my signature at the bottom of every one of my future comments.
James Madison, who was from Virginia and owned more than 100+ slaves, wanted slaves to count in their actual numbers. Other southern delegates, seeing an opportunity, then proposed full representation for their slave population. Seeing that the states could not remain united without some sort of compromise measure,
the ratio of three fifths was brought back to the table and agreed to by eight states to two. So, southern states were able to count 3 out of 5 slaves towards the population of their states for legislative purposes.
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The Three-Fifths Compromise was a compromise reached among state delegates during the 1787 United States Constitutional Convention. Whether and, if so, how slaves would be counted when determining a state's total population for legislative representation and taxing purposes was important, as this population number would then be used to determine the number of seats that the state would have in the United States House of Representatives for the next ten years. The compromise solution was to count three out of every five slaves as a person for this purpose.
Its effect was to give the southern states a third more seats in Congress and a third more electoral votes than if slaves had been ignored, but fewer than if slaves and free people had been counted equally."
There have been many presidential elections in history where a candidate won the popular vote but lost the election due to the electoral college. The most recent of course Trump and before him George W. Bush in 2000. The number of Representatives is roughly proportional to total U. S. population, but even the smallest state also contributes two Electors to its roster, by virtue of sending two Senators to Congress. Therefore, not even the smallest state, Wyoming can have fewer than three Electoral votes. BUT, on average a state is awarded one electoral vote for every 565,166 people. However, Wyoming has three electoral votes and only 532,668 citizens (as of 2008 estimates). As a result each of Wyoming's three electoral votes corresponds to 177,556 people. Understood in one way, these people have 3.18 times as much clout in the Electoral College as an average American, or 318%
A better way of measuring a voter's clout in a presidential election is simply whether or not they live in a swing state. Those voters that live in "spectator states" essentially have no clout, as candidates know that the outcomes in those states are already decided. There is very little incentive to campaign in those states or respond to the needs of those voters.
The concept that the electoral college is some sacred democratic process that protects smaller less populous states is just another fake fact put out by Republicans because they are embarrassed that they can’t get a president by majority in spite of their extensive programs of voter suppression.
Mexico once had electoral votes, that was before they had a 10 year revolution, from 1910 to 1920 that changed that law. Mexico presidents are now decided entirely based on popular vote. Our electoral college is unfair, outdated and has to be eliminated sooner rather than later.
