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Originally Posted by Cyberbob
While it's not nothing, the popular approach has to be weighed up against the needs of the few. If it's turned into a purely populist approach, then whatever the liberal east/west coasters want would be the way, regardless of what the rest of the country wants. It naturally gravitates towards the urban centers.
It'd be like Auckland dictating the political stance for the rest of the country, purely based on population.
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The same goes for the suggestion that the electoral college makes small states feel important because the allocation of seats is skewed in their favor. Isn’t it enough that small states have the full complement of two senators, the same number as large states, such that in senatorial elections an ordinary voter in Wyoming has 46 times the clout of a Californian voter? Can’t you be satisfied with that 46-fold degree of undemocratic unfairness? Do you really have to cling, in addition, to a system of presidential election which is not only unfair and undemocratic but capable of generating a situation as ludicrously farcical as Florida 2000?
| http://time.com/4354908/richard-dawk...toral-college/
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