So tell me again where we went "wrong".

[Yo_Mama]

166. All states matter in the EC - some not very much. CA a great deal.

You're not really engaging with our electoral reality.


This was an uncommon election, in that the split between old rust belt states, the new south and the coastal behemoths was uncommonly strong, which produced the divergent popular/electoral vote results.

If you don't like this potential outcome (split popular vote versus EC vote) then go ahead and work to get it changed. But I would suggest to you that it is very unlikely that it will be changed, because that would give a few states too much power.

The way electoral votes are allocated by states is by the total Congressional representation. You could also work to get the rules for the Senate changed, so that it works like the House (allocated by population), instead of just having 2 senators for each state. But these have been the ground rules from the beginning, and I don't think states having voted this way are going to want to give up power. The US is a huge country with a very varied geography and economic circumstances, and it is hard to hold such a country together. Look at the problems the EU is having!! Some sort of arrangement that allows RI the ability to reject being the country's garbage dump is probably wise.

Or we could all sit down, talk among ourselves, and get these once Democratic strongholds back in the fold.

You have a choice just as each one of us does. But some choices are more likely to work than others.