re: #45 Anymouse

Even 500,000 population Wyoming gets three electoral votes. Those Senatorial electoral votes built into each state add up. Any Democratic campaign for President must consider those of us in the Heartland, or cede the field on ND, SD, NE, WY, ID, UT, MT, OK, AR, LA, AL, GA, SC, KS. (That is 28 electoral votes Dems cede every time they run and ignore us; that is a Pennsylvania sized count. Half of California. As long as the Dems keep ignoring us, they will continue losing all those votes.)

We will continue losing elections though we get the popular vote until Democrats get with the programme the system is structured so they have to campaign in all the states or cede a bunch of electoral votes. The Republicans get it.

I am for keeping the EC but

1) amending it so that it represents only the population and not the congressional seats of each state and

2) only having it kick in as a backup if neither candidate gets an uncontestable majority of the popular vote

that would not have affected the outcomes of 2000 or 2016, but it would make the EC more representative and balanced.

But as long as the Dems draw their support from states with densely populated rural areas and the GOP from the less populated states, the latter will not want to change it.