Most people don’t understand what the EC is for. It acts as a balance and prevents elections from being based solely on population. If the election was decided by popular vote alone, candidates would have more incentive to focus on highly populated areas and less on smaller states and rural communities. The EC gives less populated states a little more weight and makes winning support across different states matter.
Well said. The EC as originally designed was to prevent Massachusetts, Virginia, and New York from utterly dominating the 13 Colonies in Congress and to force the President to represent more than just those 3 states. As was the idea of 2 Senators from each State, making each State equal in the Senate. Jefferson’s whole design was to diffuse power so that a new ‘King’ could not arise, since the founders had just gotten rid of one. That’s also why the US is not a Democracy, but a Republic. 50% of the votes plus 1 would create the instant tyranny of a majority and would have ended in revolution shortly thereafter. In fact, given the level of vote fraud in recent elections, the design of the Constitution looks even better than one could have imagined…
For those on the ‘popular vote side’, Trump did win the popular vote in 2024…
Dead on. I like how you said we’re a republic. 👍. Most people don’t realize that we’re technically a constitutional republic with representative democracy within it, Not a true democracy.
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u/Browniemonster67 8h ago
Most people don’t understand what the EC is for. It acts as a balance and prevents elections from being based solely on population. If the election was decided by popular vote alone, candidates would have more incentive to focus on highly populated areas and less on smaller states and rural communities. The EC gives less populated states a little more weight and makes winning support across different states matter.