11/14 Lets say a state w/ 2,000,000 people has 20 electoral votes
another state w/ 1,000,000 people has 10 electoral votes.
Candidate 1 gets 1,000,001 popular vote in state 1 wins 20 votes.
Candidate 2 gets 1,000,000 popular votes in state 2 wins 10 votes
Popular vote: Electoral Votes
Candidate 1 1,000,001 20
Candidate 2 1,999,999 10
Candidate 2 wins popular vote but loses electoral votes.
What's the big deal about crying about winning electoral college
but not popular vote?
\_ we are in a republic so the state gets represented, not the
people. So the above is correct.
\- part of the reason the popular vote claim is a little bogus
is that wasnt the strategic target the campaigns were aiming
at. it would be like at the end of a foodball game ignorning
the score and awarding victory to the team with more total
time of posession. --psb
\_ a switch to a popular vote might not pass anyway because the
smaller states (in terms of population) would not approve.
In campaigning, candidates would campaign in big metropolitan
areas and ignore the smaller states.
\_ They already do that. Gore never bothered campaigning in
the "Bush" states and Bush didn't bother campaigning in
the "Gore" states. It was only the swing (or battleground)
states that they cared about.
states that they cared about. Do you think Al Gore cares
what people in N. Dakota think about him? How about Bush
in Hawaii?
\_ True, but the effect would be even greater with a
popular vote.
\_ There's a ton of folks in the little shithole backwaters of
places like NH that have personally met every major candidate
going back 50+ years. Think that'd happen in a popularity
vote contest? |
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