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As governor he got his state signed on to the national popular vote interstate compact

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[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 207 points 1 month ago (15 children)

California gets 54 electoral votes; Wyoming gets 3.

California has 38.94 million citizens; Wyoming has 0.575 million.

California gets one electoral vote for every 721,110 people. Wyoming gets one for every 191,660. This means that per capita, Wyoming gets 3.76 times as much say in who gets to be the president as California.

[–] 2piradians@lemmy.world 91 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Indeed. Scrap electoral college and remove the arbitrary cap on House reps.

[–] Furball@sh.itjust.works 47 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Don’t forget to implement proportional representation in the House, blow up the senate, and implement ranked choice voting or something similar in all elections

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[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@lemmy.world 30 points 1 month ago (2 children)

And that's even before the bullshit that is swing states.

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[–] MyOpinion@lemm.ee 97 points 1 month ago

The Electoral College is allowing more an more manipulation from these small states. It is time for that to end. They are holding this country back much too much.

[–] pachrist@lemmy.world 74 points 1 month ago (2 children)

As a pretty left person who lives in Tennessee, please get rid of it. Anytime I have this conversation with folks on the right, I always point out that there are more Republican voters in California than Texas. That usually gets them to concede.

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[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 69 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] CluckN@lemmy.world 28 points 1 month ago (1 children)

ONE CAGE

ONE BELT

ONE CHAMPION

[–] Gaspar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] BetaBlake@lemmy.world 67 points 1 month ago (1 children)

As an Alabamian I dream of the day that my vote actually matters, fuck the electoral college.

[–] SmoothLiquidation@lemmy.world 31 points 1 month ago (8 children)

As a Washingtonian I also dream of that. It is ridiculous that only people in states that are kinda purple have their opinions heard.

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[–] cultsuperstar@lemmy.world 36 points 1 month ago

Trump in 2012: The electoral college is garbage and needs to go. Trump in 2016: The electoral college is genius. What a great system. Trump in 2020: The electoral college is garbage and needs to go

I remember his tweets each time.

[–] rsuri@lemmy.world 31 points 1 month ago

But without the electoral college, politicians would suddenly have to care about states with a lot of people living in them

[–] Happywop@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yup, I understand it was meant to give smaller states an equal voice but he GOP weaponized it and now the minority is speaking for the majority. Tell me the system isn't broken when ONE vote in shitty red state Wyoming is equal to TEN THOUSAN VOTES in Blue California?

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[–] gardylou@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago

100% correct.

[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

Hey hey! Ho ho! The electoral college has got to go!

[–] Heikki@lemm.ee 8 points 1 month ago
[–] burgersc12@mander.xyz 8 points 1 month ago

I'm glad someone is saying it! Stupid ass lines on a map determines who becomes president

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