The fetishization of smaller states because of big city “bias” frustrates me to no end.

Electoral college is better than the popular vote in the framers’ eyes & seems to work best to give meaningful weight to smaller states. The whole idea behind the electoral college is to mitigate demagoguery from swaying the masses & put the outcome in the hands of adept persons.

— temetnosce (@temnosc) February 14, 2020

It didn’t fail. It worked. As disappointing as the outcome was, the only reason Clinton won the popular vote by 2% was because she won 3 large states by a wider margin than Trump did in closely comparable states with EC votes. He won by a smaller margin. The system worked.

— temetnosce (@temnosc) February 14, 2020

Because margins totaling…what, a 300k across 3-4 states means infinitely more than million vote differences in larger states, and by necessity should? I just….fucking goddamn.