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Friday 26th of April 2024

Electoral College The Electoral College is just one example of how an increasingly urban country has inherited the political structures of a rural past. Today, states containing states containing just 17 percent of the American population, a historic low, can theoretically elect a Senate majority. New York Times, November 21, 2016 © 2016 Kwiple.com
Electoral College  The Electroal College is one of the South's few remaining political safeguards. Let's keep it. Senator James Allen of Alabama, 1969 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Electoral College I'll keep raging against the electoral college. Because we could have a different future. To see what it's like, all you have to do is look at how things work in every other democracy in the world. Pay close attention, because it gets pretty complicated: People vote. The votes are counted. The person with the most votes wins. Weird, huh? Paul Waldman,, Washington Post, September 2, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Electoral College I used to like the idea of the Popular Vote, but now realize the Electoral College is far better for the U.S.A. Donald Trump, 7:17 PM – 19 Mar 2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com
 
Electoral College Since almost all states award their Electoral College votes on a winner-take-all basis, you do just as well if you win a state by one vote as if you win it by one million. Then factor in that the allocation of electoral votes isn't even proportional to the state' sizes: every state gets at least three, creating a bias toward small states. It's not hard to see how this odd system has handed the presidency to the candidate who got fewer votes four [now five] times since the Founding … [or] how [it] encourages presidential candidates to focus on swing states at the expense of [all other states]. Zachary Roth, The Great Suppression © 2016 Kwiple.com