[ExI] Electoral College was Re: Politics of Radical Life Extension / Indefinite Lifespans

[Adrian Tymes]

On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 12:40 AM Stuart LaForge <avant at sollegro.com> wrote:
> If you want to condemn the Electoral College, then you have to come up
> with a better, more rational reason than "it allowed Trump to mobilize the
> vote in the fly-over states and get elected". Otherwise, you are talking
> about amending the constitution over the election of a president that you
> don't like . . . which is clearly an over-wrought emotional response.

When it comes to Trump, and the amount of damage he is doing daily, no
such response is over-wrought, it seems.

That said, there are more rational reasons.  Start off with:
presidential campaigns tend to ignore those states which are likely to
swing one way or another, and their issues, because under the
Electoral College now there is no reason to pay attention to them.
Losing a state's electors by 55% of the vote is the same result as
losing them by 5% of the vote.  Those states which claim to be
swinging one way or the other get all the attention - and their issues
addressed, to the exclusion of anyone else's (save for overlapping or
common issues).