If each county were represented by a single elector, it looks to me like a landslide for Trump ... no?
Thank you for the election county vote map.
As it turns out, I was wrong wasn’t I. It didn’t come out like the popular vote at all. That made sense to me when I predicted it, but I was way off.
I agree with the Electoral College the way it is. I don’t want large states to be able to run roughshod over small states, but there has to be some balance to this.
Should a county with a population of 5,000 have as much clout as the county that has New York or Los Angeles in it? That wouldn’t be reasoned. We have hundreds of counties like that.
The electoral college apportions one elector per each representative’s district. Each district has 710,767 residents. They are reapportioned after each ten year census. In about four years, we’ll see the populace jump to a higher population figure for each district.
As it turns out, the Electoral College does it’s job. In this election you had places like Los Angeles and New York over-ruled by many other congressional districts.
I think our Founders had it right. More folks might agree with you though.
https://www.census.gov/prod/cen2010/briefs/c2010br-08.pdf