[ExI] My prediction

[John Clark]

On Tue, Jan 6, 2026 at 11:13 AM <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:

*> **EC,**which was intentionally designed to prevent the kind of chaos we
> almost had in 2020, where the election came down to a few hundred popular
> votes in a time when weather might have prevented vote counting for months.*


*You're thinking of the 2000 election not the 2020 election. In 2000 there
was never any doubt about who had won the popular vote, it was Al Gore, but
it took over a month to figure out who had won the Electoral Vote. If it
wasn't for the electoral college Al Gore would have been president and we
would not have had the Iraq war. In 2020 there was never any doubt about
who would won the popular vote OR the electoral vote, but thanks to You
Know Who and his gang of MAGA thugs there was considerable doubt about who
would win the presidency. *

*And it has nothing to do with the weather, the electoral college was put
in place to protect slave states, a slave couldn't vote but a states power
in the electoral college depends on its population (although it always gets
at least 3 no matter how small its population is) but the constitution says
a slave is 3/5th of a person, so a slave state would have more power in the
say of who would be the president than it would if there was no electoral
college. *

*> The electoral college protects minorities, such as voters from Wyoming
> and Alaska.*


*Black people are a minority, so should a black person get 10 votes in
presidential elections but a white person only get one? After all a black
man can't turn into a white man, but if a man in Wyoming is tired of being
in the minority he can just move to California. **Of course the argument is
nuts! Wyoming should have less power than California because almost nobody
lives in Wyoming, but lots of people live in California, and nobody
believes that cows and sheep should get to vote. *

*And I'm certain you would never have proposed such a ridiculous rationale
except for the fact that rural areas tend to be more conservative than
urban areas. I don't understand why you can't just admit the truth and say
the electoral college is ridiculous but it favors Republicans more than
Democrats so you don't want to change it, at least that rationale is
logical even if I don't agree with it. *

*John K Clark*
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