How much each vote actually counts for in US presidential elections.
I’ve seen this map before and it always makes me so fucking mad.
Why?
Because it’s inherently undemocratic to give some citizens more voting powers than others?
Is it more democratic to make rural states/communities subject to an executive branch on which they have virtually no influence? Executive and legislative branches, even, as the Senate is undemocratic in the same way.
Even if the electoral college has just reversed the problem it exists to solve, giving a (largely) rural minority disproportionate influential over the executive branch as compared to a (largely) urban majority, even if just getting rid of it and going to direct voting is the right solution, the ‘one person, one vote’ argument, I don’t know that it holds up.
People do not vote by block based on their geographic location. AND Electoral votes are not awarded by COUNTY. They are awarded by STATE.
And guess what? Only 15 states have a rural majority. Which means in the other 35, all those electoral votes are decided mostly by URBAN VOTERS ANYWAY.
A banker living in Montana’s vote should not count almost 3 times more than a farmer in Texas. Yet here we are.
And because we are a winner takes all system, states with strong political majorities really don’t have any say anyway. They are ignored by politicians who only focus on a tiny handful of swing states (which are NOT the most rural in the country anyway.)
Sooooo no. It’s a fucked up, undemocratic system.
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