re: #367 Eclectic Cyborg
Exactly.
But I canât help but think the reverse angle renders a whole lot of votes moot. The fifteen most populous cities in the country are, in order from most to least populated: New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Phoenix, Philadelphia, San Antonio, San Diego, Dallas, San Jose, Austin, Jacksonville, Fort Worth, Columbus and San Francisco. You have to go all the way to #24 on the list (Nashville) to find a city that would even remotely track GOP.
Eliminating the EC would give New York, California, Texas and Illinois vastly more power when it comes to electing the President of the United States. It would also make âflyover countryâ less and less relevant in national politics.
My point is, either option seems tilted unfairly in favor of one side and I canât see any reasonable âmiddle groundâ option here. Without some kind of compromise that doesnât all but neutralize their votes, conservatives will never give up the EC.
How would it give those states more power?