Here's a Washington Post article that has a couple of interesting maps showing the geography of the 2016 election: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/2016-election/election-results-from-coast-to-coast/
Nope. People are selfish and will only look after themselves. Any assistance to most states will be bare bones. These metro areas? Feed thyself first.
They don't have to go to Minnesota to help them out...the state reps are already in DC with the states issues
Maybe that's the solution. Cow sufferage. If we give cows the vote, that will give rural areas more clout. barfo
Not a fan of the Electoral College, nor the House or Senate for that matter. When a Minority have a say over the Majority then there is a problem. Do I have a solution to solve the problem besides simply abolishing it and letting the popular vote elect the next president, nope.
One possible improvement that wouldn't require a constitutional amendment would be if people in all states worked to adopt the apportioning of electoral votes like Maine and Nebraska do instead of the winner take all approach the rest have. It would still be skewed from the popular vote a bit since the number of electoral votes a state gets is based on its number of congressional representatives plus one for each of its two senators, but it would be closer.
Also do you know what else this will lead up to? this will give you a scenario when there are more than two choices for president. There will be Independents and eventually you're going to have a election situation where they're going to be five or six candidates and then the one who wins the popular vote from that will win the presidency. Do it
Cal has 39.4 million people LA has as many people as OR 4.1 million Wash - 7.4 million OR - 4.1 Give CA, back to Mexico and give Canada WA & OR. Im sure our friends in the mid-west & south would love to see it happen. Them freaking left coasters....
I like where you are with this. I would at least like to read a study about a potential change like this.
Who cares? I'm still failing to see how that matters. Votes are votes you get more you win the state. Here's Texas in the 2016 election: All the urban areas except Dallas where it was close (Houston, San Antonio, Austin, Ft worth) went blue. Trump still carried the state.
This is hilarious and delusional. Paul Weyrich, The founder of the neocons and The heritage Foundation, says this:
