If you abolish the EC

[LiberalFighter]

32. So you are against a national popular vote but think it is okay with an electoral college.

An electoral college that allowed as you say three states to elect Trumpass. They by themselves didn't allow it to happen. But they were key states that had more importance than the rest of the country and the people. And you think that it is better to have a few states where the process is winner take all vs. one that is based on actual individual votes?

And in your previous comment you are against New York or California to be the deciding factor in the outcome of an election if we used the national popular vote to decide the outcome. Please explain how either could decide and why did you select just those two states which typically go blue? Especially when Florida and Texas had more people vote than New York.

There were over 127 million votes cast between Clinton and Trump. For New York or California to be the single state to decide the outcome of the election under a popular vote it would require California to cast over half of the 127 million votes all for the winning candidate. That is over 63.5 million votes. California only has a population of 39.1 million followed by Texas with 27.4 million. Even if California had over 63.5 million eligible voters they are not all going to vote for the same candidate.

Under a popular vote there is no scenario that would allow even 2 to 4 states to decide the outcome of an election. The top 4 states had a combined election turnout of 36,958,666 votes. That includes all of the third party votes. But if they were to all vote for one candidate it would had only been 58% of what was needed to win.


On the electoral college system. That allows a state with only 3 electoral votes having each of their votes equal to 86,262 votes compared to California's votes equal to 250,365 votes. That means a vote by a Californian is only equal to 1/3 the vote of a Wyoming voter.

And to be clear there is not going to be any state that will have all of their voters voting for the same candidate regardless of how bad they are. As demonstrated by this election with Trump.