<div dir="ltr"><div>I'll answer you, yes, I would. Putting aside the political implications, I believe states that have less population than others should still have <b>some</b> influence on an election that avoids completely disregarding the will of that state compared to others. I'll remind you that the Federal government does not have absolute authority over the states that have agreed to be part of this republic, and neither do voters in other states.</div><div><br></div><div>California is still compensated for its larger population under the electoral system which I'm sure you understand since you're probably capable of a lot more advanced math than I am based on your posts where you stick to science.</div><div><br></div><div>Do you also think that states with greater populations should have the same number of US representatives as every other state? Why should state population be taken into account in Congress if it's not in the POTUS voting?</div><div><br></div><div>I live in CT. If I don't vote D, my vote is thrown away since this state inexplicably runs blue despite a lot of wealth and is determined to self destruct regardless of how bad it gets here. I don't like this, but never once have I thought I would shift to a popular vote model if given a choice. If things get beyond the point where I'm willing to put up with them, I'll move to another state that has more of what I'm looking for. As Spike mentioned, it's one of the biggest strengths of our system of government. It's a n=50 lab for experimenting with policy.</div><div><br></div><div>For me, the electoral system is part of the genius of the system as it was defined all those years ago. I think popular vote would be disastrous for the long term cohesion of this country. As it is, we're hanging by a thread.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 3:34 PM John Clark via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 2:45 PM Dylan Distasio via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</span></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div> </div><font size="4">I asked this of Spike now let me ask you, would you still be a big fan of the electoral college if California was as conservative as Wyoming and Wyoming as liberal as California? Would you still be saying the electoral college<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span>leads to better government if a liberal voter had 66.7 times as much influence over who the next commander in chief would be as a conservative voter?</font></div><div class="gmail_quote"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_quote"><font size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">John K Clark</span></font></div></div>
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