• A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I never knew Hillary won the popular vote by so much. Remind me, why the fuck does the electoral college exist???

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      3 months ago

      To give a disproportionate amount of voting power to rural areas.

      People look at a map and go “Oh my god look how much square footage is red” and can’t comprehend the population density of large cities, so feel they are under represented.

      Same principle as two Senators per state, and Congressmen are supposed to balance that out by representing population, until the artificial cap on number of Congressman.

      Between that, and the insane gerrymandering, Red rural votes are just weighed higher than Blue urban votes.

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        3 months ago

        That isn’t why it existed in the first place but it is part of why it still exists today. Afaik nobody has made a serious effort to get rid of it but it’s time. The electoral college needs to go

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      3 months ago

      While she did win the popular vote by a wide margin the chart shows how many electors each candidate (including No Vote as a candidate) would get rather than directly representing popular vote by state.