Apportionment?

A lot of people I know on the left say the Electoral College is racist.  Man are they ignorant.  They are also stupid.  Racism doesn’t exist in America the way the left tells it.  If you don’t believe it read this.

Anyway, here is exactly why there is an Electoral College.  Federalist 39 and Federalist 68.  The Federalist Papers explain the thought process behind the Constitution and operations of government.  We have bastardized it over time.  The Federal government has way too much power, and the Executive Branch of the Federal government has way too much power in the Federal government.

Lately, I have seen some interesting arguments to apportion the Electoral College.  That would mean instead of each state giving all it’s votes to a candidate, it would be apportioned by districts.

The spirit of the Electoral College is to eliminate the influence of larger states over smaller states.  When the country started, Virginia would have run the country.  I realize with all the government bureaucrats that live in Virginia they still think they do.  But, today, it would be Florida, New York, California and Texas.  Probably not cool with people in South Dakota or Rhode Island.

We wouldn’t have a union without the Electoral College.

Today in a state like Iowa or Minnesota, cities overwhelm rural areas.  Rural areas get stuck with a lot of bullshit passed by urban dwellers.  We are seeing cracks, upstate NY wants to split with NYC.  Downstate IL wants to split with Chicago.  In this last election counties in northeast Oregon voted to split and go into Idaho.

I saw a comment on a blog and someone said they did the math for this election.

When a candidate won a state by a large margin of at least 2:1, both electoral votes associated with Senators went to that candidate.  Otherwise, it was 1:1.  Then he split up the states based on representative districts.

Result:  Trump 270 Biden 268.

We are a terribly divided country. As divided as we were in 1860.  You can spin it any way you want.  But, the simple fact remains we are terribly divided.

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