DON’T RUSH TO JUDGE THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE SYSTEM
Posted in Uncategorized by Baba - Dec 03, 2016
[actual data may change due to ongoing recounts]
FACT: There are 3,141 counties in America. Trump won 3,o84 of them (98.2%). Clinton won 57 (1.8%).
FACT: There are 62 counties in New York. Trump won 46 of them (74.2%). Clinton won 16 (25.8%).
FACT: There are 5 counties (boroughs) in New York city. Clinton won 4 of them (80%). Trump won 1 (20%). These 5 boroughs represent 0.00008% of the land in the U.S.A.
FACT: 4 of the 5 New York City boroughs account for more than the 1.5 million popular vote margin which favors Clinton over Trump.
FACT: On Nov.8, 2016 if we had elected a President based solely upon the popular vote, the candidate who won the majority of votes of people living in 98.2% of the land would have been defeated by a candidate who won the majority of votes of the people living in just 1.8% of the land!
CONCLUSION: The simple popular vote system gives the advantage to high-density population centers which will then control the outcome of elections. One of several reasons to keep the Electoral College.
Long live the Electoral College!
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