XCR1250 Posted July 26, 2018 Share Posted July 26, 2018 In their infinite wisdom, the United States' Founders created the Electoral College to ensure the STATES were fairly represented. Why should one or two densely populated areas speak for the whole of the nation? The following list of statistics has been making the rounds on the Internet. It should finally put an end to the argument as to why the Electoral College makes sense. There are 3,141 counties in the United States. Trump won 3,084 of them. Clinton won 57. There are 62 counties in New York State. Trump won 46 of them. Clinton won 16. Clinton won the popular vote by approx. 1.5 million votes. In the 5 counties that encompass NYC, (Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Richmond & Queens) Clinton received well over 2 million more votes than Trump. (Clinton only won 4 of these counties; Trump won Richmond) Therefore these 5 counties alone, more than accounted for Clinton winning the popular vote of the entire country. These 5 counties comprise 319 square miles. The United States is comprised of 3,797,000 square miles. When you have a country that encompasses almost 4 million square miles of territory, it would be ludicrous to even suggest that the vote of those who inhabit a mere 319 square miles should dictate the outcome of a national election. Large, densely populated cities (NYC, Chicago, LA, etc.) DO NOT and SHOULD NOT speak for the rest of our country! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angry ginger Posted July 26, 2018 Share Posted July 26, 2018 yah trump won empty counties and a huge portion of our citizens votes are marginalized by under representation in the EC. EC should go and everyones vote should count and be competed for Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SSFB Posted July 26, 2018 Share Posted July 26, 2018 7 minutes ago, Angry ginger said: yah trump won empty counties and a huge portion of our citizens votes are marginalized by under representation in the EC. EC should go and everyones vote should count and be competed for Going strictly popular vote would result in even less competition for votes in sparsely populated areas. There's not enough votes to sway in those areas. Candidates would spend their time going up and down the coasts and the Great Lakes areas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angry ginger Posted July 26, 2018 Share Posted July 26, 2018 2 minutes ago, SSFB said: Going strictly popular vote would result in even less competition for votes in sparsely populated areas. There's not enough votes to sway in those areas. Candidates would spend their time going up and down the coasts and the Great Lakes areas. perfect, no reason hilljacks from the dakotas vote to matter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gold Member BOHICA Posted July 26, 2018 Gold Member Share Posted July 26, 2018 (edited) We should be allowed to shoot wolves at will in my state/region... LA or NYC shouldn’t be allowed to stop it based on what they think. Electoral college and the Senate is what is needed to run an entire collective group of states. Edited July 26, 2018 by BOHICA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rw06GT Posted July 26, 2018 Share Posted July 26, 2018 17 minutes ago, Angry ginger said: yah trump won empty counties and a huge portion of our citizens votes are marginalized by under representation in the EC. EC should go and everyones vote should count and be competed for Quite the specious argument. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JEFF Posted July 26, 2018 Share Posted July 26, 2018 21 minutes ago, Angry ginger said: yah trump won empty counties and a huge portion of our citizens votes are marginalized by under representation in the EC. EC should go and everyones vote should count and be competed for Lol... Drugs are bad. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SSFB Posted July 26, 2018 Share Posted July 26, 2018 31 minutes ago, Angry ginger said: perfect, no reason hilljacks from the dakotas vote to matter I'm very tremendous!!!!!!!11 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zambroski Posted July 26, 2018 Share Posted July 26, 2018 27 minutes ago, JEFF said: Lol... Drugs are bad. 6 minutes ago, SSFB said: I'm very tremendous!!!!!!!11 You shut the door pretty hard on Gingerbread. That was kinda un-nice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SSFB Posted July 26, 2018 Share Posted July 26, 2018 1 minute ago, Zambroski said: You shut the door pretty hard on Gingerbread. That was kinda un-nice. That's what I do!!!!!!!!!!!11 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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racer254 Posted July 26, 2018 Share Posted July 26, 2018 And yet these same people complain that 1% own 50% of the wealth, but lets let a small percentage run the elections as well. Right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zambroski Posted July 26, 2018 Share Posted July 26, 2018 Does everyone remember when the EC was all good and fair and just until Hillary lost? That was back when Russia wasn’t our sworn enemy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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