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In Which the President* of the US Calls Himself "The Chosen One"

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KGxvi8/21/2019 3:31:18 pm PDT

re: #221 Hecuba’s daughter

Hate this so much. Tara Ross of Prager “University” has been spreading this nonsense across the nation and has persuaded too many of the merits of her argument. It’s not just traditional rw zealots who buy into this argument; many well-meaning voters have been taken in. I have refused to read her magnum opus on this topic because I don’t want to waste my time being forced to digest her sophistry.

I’ve shifted over the years on the Electoral College from mostly agnostic to believing we should probably abolish it. The way it has evolved, it has rendered many voter’s ballots irrelevant. If you’re a Republican in California or a Democrat in Wyoming, your vote doesn’t really matter, because the margins in those states are so wide.

But if we go to a national popular vote, a Republican no longer has to win California for those votes to matter, they just have to close the margin in the state. Same for the Democrats in Wyoming. It actually puts more votes in play, rather than less. It would also likely make presidential campaigns a lot more expensive because a smart nominee/campaign is going to look to invest resources where they hadn’t previously invested. But you take the good with the bad.

The EC would probably be better if we didn’t have an artificial cap of 435 members of the House. But even then, you’d have to either award electors proportionally or via district to be best representative.