re: #109 goddamnedfrank

Yeah, but so what. The end result is just an EC that more closely resembles the popular vote instead of magnifying and creating an illusion of a blowout. I’m not saying that we should go along with it, I’m saying that people are overreacting and somewhat hypocritically ignoring the equally undemocratic current structure of the EC. The fact that we could have lost by several points in the popular vote and still won is fundamentally problematic, any honest broker would admit this.

But this present day democratic advantage in the electoral college seems like a strange and temporary affair to me. The structure of the EV (extra representation to small states) favors the GOP by over-representing rural areas where the GOP is strong.

I think the pattern Nate Silver is seeing is a basically meaningless artifact of who is winning which states by how much (at this point in time).