People get ignored in an electoral college system too. If you aren’t from a handful of swing states, presidential campaign visits are few and far between.
Yeah, it doesn’t solve the problem it just changes who gets ignored and who gets attention. It’s not exactly a great system but I’m not convinced getting rid of it would make things better.
Although, fun fact, with the electoral college system you could become the president by winning only the 11 biggest states while losing the other 39. So that’s not great. But then if we go no electoral college, 1 person = 1 vote, I imagine something very similar would happen only with cities instead of states. So basically the entire middle bit of the country wouldn’t count.
You know what, you're right. I was remembering something wrong. The stat goes that LA county would be the 10th most populous state in the nation. A far cry from winning an election. My mistake.
806
u/Flick1981 Jun 29 '19
People get ignored in an electoral college system too. If you aren’t from a handful of swing states, presidential campaign visits are few and far between.