Mr.Tickles
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Fuck yes I do. If exponentially more people live in that city. I'll flip it around, why should a town of 40k people in BFE, Wyoming have exponentially more power to decide who's president than the city of Los Angeles?
We already allocate two Senators per state regardless of population or area. We already have tinier states over-represented in the House of Representatives because there's a floor on the number of Reps in the smaller states (one) and a cap on the number of Reps in the larger states because the number of Reps hasn't been increased since the 1920s, despite the population having grown by more than 200%.
Because it’s not all about what LA wants. People in LA generally want the same thing and won’t care one bit about what Wyoming want. So why should LA completely override Wyoming, South Dakota, North Dakota, Nebraska, and probably Kansas as well?
The electoral college ensures that all states get a say in who’s president.
Here’s the problem. The house wasn’t supposed to be capped so the big states are underrepresented in the electoral college. Constitutionally the big states should have more electors.
The reason they were capped is because the populations were increasing to a point where again, only a few places would decide who’s president.
How the fuck can you begin to make this argument. Empty land shouldn't have a say in who gets to be president. Population centers should have more of a say because they're population centers i.e. more people fucking live there. If you're so concerned that the population centers are too skewed one way in their political ideology, convince 500,000 of your closest buddies to move there with you and you can un-skew it. Because that's how democracy works.
Riiiight, empty lands. People do live in those states in case you didn’t know. Well it’s a good thing we’re a democratic republic and not a true democracy. Somehow I doubt you’d feel so strongly about this if your particular political party didn’t dominate large population centers. I for one am glad that the small states don’t get completely shafted by the whims and desires of a few cities.