Electoral College votes are determined by the number of congressional districts per the constitution.
And congressional districts are allocated based on population.
By design.
The only thing red states can do is appoint their electors in the legislature an forgo an election. But eventually population catches up with that too as the composition of state legislatures changes to reflect the cities.
The end result of any and every democratic republic is ochlocracy.
And it is because anacyclosis is immutable social law.
Or institute some type of state level ‘electoral college’ so the blue cities don’t get to run over the rural counties.
“Electoral College votes are determined by the number of congressional districts per the constitution.”
The EC votes that each state has are determined by the number of congressional districts...
PLUS THAT STATE’S TWO SENATORS
...per the Constitution.
This was a part of the Great Compromise (the other being that we have a bicameral legislature, one house having its members based on the population of each state (satisfying the large states of the time), the other base on absolutely equal representation of each state by 2 Senators (satisfying the small states of the time).
What the Dems/Leftists (not much difference these days) want to do is to shred the part of the Great Compromise dealing with the Presidential election by eliminating the Electoral College (either directly or via state-level legislation), having the election turn ONLY on the popular vote, thus largely eliminating the power of the smaller population states to have a voice in the direction of this country.
If anyone wants my opinion, it is that without the Great Compromise, we would have had no Constitution and it is possible that the nation would have fallen apart and been ripe for the piecemeal reincorporation into the British Empire. Thus, to void any aspect of the Great Compromise via subterfuge (i.e. via state law, rather than an amendment ratified by 3/4 of the state legislatures) would be to essentially void the Constitution itself. It cuts to the heart of how power is allocated in this country, and thus voids the bargain that we’ve enjoyed for the last 234 years. Similarly, to void any part of the Bill of Rights (specifically the 2nd Amendment, but the 1st, 4th, 5th and 10th most certainly are as important) is to void any obligation that the states have to the Union. It is changing the rules after the game has started, which every person understands to be monumentally unfair to the point where it is literally game over when that happens.