re: #158 KGxvi

This is one of the reasons why I think a push to abolish the EC should be made in more general terms… specifically by pointing out that for most people, your vote doesn’t actually matter. If you’re a Republican in New York or California, doesn’t matter. If you’re a Democrat in Idaho or Utah or Wyoming, doesn’t matter. And as a result, it probably drives down turn out - why vote if you know the rest of your state is going to vote for the other side?

But you make it a true national election, and then, every vote does actually matter.

I could go into some philosophical arguments about it, but I think for most people, this is the argument that would make the most headway.

It won’t make headway, because the wingnuts in ‘overpowered’ red states don’t give a shit about the wingnuts in the blue states. Their ‘reasoning’ is entirely utilitarian, reverse engineered, because they like the results. So, really, the only way to make them hate the EC is for them to lose because of it.

The problem is, as you know, the only way to get rid of it is an Amendment, and the less populous states that would lose power are too numerous.

I say, make DC and Puerto Rico into states, and expand the House.