5,187,019 Californians live in rural areas.
1,366,760 New Yorkers live in rural areas.
Now, because of statewide winner-take-all laws for awarding electors, minority party voters in the states don’t matter.
California and New York state together would not dominate the choice of President under...
The Founders did not intend that women, black people, and native Americans vote.
Most of the founders intended that only in some states white men with significant money could vote for president.
Prior to arriving at the eventual wording of section 1 of Article II, the Constitutional Convention...
There are good reasons why no state awards their electors proportionally.
Electors are people. They each have one vote. The result would be a very inexact whole number proportional system.
Every voter in every state would not be politically relevant or equal in presidential elections.
It...
"comparing these two American institutions perfectly illustrates we why we need to get rid of the winner-take-all Electoral College rules and establish a fairer system of electing the president based on a national popular vote."
The Current Electoral College is Like the World Series (Which is...
“The bottom line is that the electors from those states who cast their ballot for the nationwide vote winner are completely accountable (to the extent that independent agents are ever accountable to anyone) to the people of those states. The National Popular Vote states aren’t delegating their...
Trump in June 2019 – Fox News interview
“It’s always tougher for the Republican because, . . . the Electoral College is very much steered to the Democrats. It’s a big advantage for the Democrats. It’s very much harder for the Republicans to win.”
Trump, April 26, 2018 on “Fox & Friends”
“I...
Mob rule is defined as “control of a political situation by those outside the conventional or lawful realm, typically involving violence and intimidation.”
[The] difference between a democracy and a republic [is] the delegation of the government, the latter, to a small number of citizens...
States with 3 electors range in population of less than 600,000 to almost a million.
Constitutionally, the number of electors in each state is equal to the number of members of Congress to which the state is entitled, while the 23rd...
California and New York had a total of 24,243,000 registered voters.
15% of the total number of registered voters in the US in 2018 (which is 153,066,000).
5,187,019 Californians live in rural areas.
1,366,760 New Yorkers live in rural areas.
Now, because of statewide winner-take-all laws for...
Maine (since enacting a state law in 1969) and Nebraska (since enacting a state law in 1992) have awarded one electoral vote to the winner of each congressional district, and two electoral votes statewide.
When Nebraska in 2008 gave one electoral vote to the candidate who did not win the state...
In Gallup polls since 1944 until before the 2016 election, only about 20% of the public has supported the current system of awarding all of a state's electoral votes to the presidential candidate who receives the most votes in each separate state (with about 70% opposed and about 10% undecided)...