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<blockquote data-quote="Ragey Erasmus" data-source="post: 1009819" data-attributes="member: 56232"><p>This, the electoral college was put in place to ensure that the president would be chosen based on the decisions of people who were supposed to, in theory, put a brake on any kind of overwhelming popularism for the good of the nation. The reality is it has done little except exacerbate the FPTP system. Due to all states having 2 senators and Representatives being allocated based on population, it has resulted in smaller states getting heavily over-represented. For example, there are 6 states with 1 representative, their combined population is 4.5 million. California has 39.5 million and 53 reps. This averages out at 750,000 per rep between California and those 6, which would be fair enough. However, throw in the 2 senators each and it ends up with California having 55 EC votes compared to the 6 combined having 18 EC votes. So California has 9 times the population of the 6 combined but only 3 times the voting power.</p><p></p><p>What we are beginning to see is Republicans winning the smaller population states more frequently, meaning they have the senate more times than Democrats regardless of general voting trends. As these less populated states also have disproportionate EC voting, the Republicans need few votes to win the presidential election. Only the house of representatives is slanted more in Democrats favour. Now the Republicans have stacked the courts (easier to do when you control the presidency and the senate) they are putting themselves in a position where they can entrench their position and make themselves essentially immune to prosecution. If they continue fully abandoning their morals and also gerrymander further, they could entrench themselves in such a way they will be virtually impossible to remove.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ragey Erasmus, post: 1009819, member: 56232"] This, the electoral college was put in place to ensure that the president would be chosen based on the decisions of people who were supposed to, in theory, put a brake on any kind of overwhelming popularism for the good of the nation. The reality is it has done little except exacerbate the FPTP system. Due to all states having 2 senators and Representatives being allocated based on population, it has resulted in smaller states getting heavily over-represented. For example, there are 6 states with 1 representative, their combined population is 4.5 million. California has 39.5 million and 53 reps. This averages out at 750,000 per rep between California and those 6, which would be fair enough. However, throw in the 2 senators each and it ends up with California having 55 EC votes compared to the 6 combined having 18 EC votes. So California has 9 times the population of the 6 combined but only 3 times the voting power. What we are beginning to see is Republicans winning the smaller population states more frequently, meaning they have the senate more times than Democrats regardless of general voting trends. As these less populated states also have disproportionate EC voting, the Republicans need few votes to win the presidential election. Only the house of representatives is slanted more in Democrats favour. Now the Republicans have stacked the courts (easier to do when you control the presidency and the senate) they are putting themselves in a position where they can entrench their position and make themselves essentially immune to prosecution. If they continue fully abandoning their morals and also gerrymander further, they could entrench themselves in such a way they will be virtually impossible to remove. [/QUOTE]
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