Just to vent:
I'm growing tired of the "We need to use the popular vote!" or "The Electoral College is unfair!" complaints. Someone whom I highly respect for their intelligence completely let me down today with an argument about the Elec. voting and how poorly weighted it is using the WY vs CA comparison (perhaps you've seen the meme). While I don't disagree that the weighting is off based on population per state per electoral vote, even when you re-run the numbers with fair weighting, Trump still crushes Clinton. She was a horrible candidate and it showed by how few states she won. A better Dem candidate could've fought for FL, PA, MI, WI...maybe even OH and IN. But she lost ALL of those. Again, even with better distribution of the 530+ electoral votes, Trump still wins EASILY. I hate it, but facts are facts.
Secondly, the popular vote completely eliminates any representation Heartland America would receive. All future POTUS would be elected via the big/populated Dem-leaning cities. Which is completely unfair. I can't seem to understand why smarter people don't recognize this.
I saw this comparison between California and Wyoming today too.
For one, I believe nearly 1/10th (Estimated at as many as 3.5 million) of California's 38.8 million population could be illegal. They don't mention that in the comparison.
Second, they picked Wyoming to compare which is the least populous state in the US and is already tied at the lowest number of electoral college votes at 3 along with several other states. It's easy to see why Wyoming was chosen given no state has fewer than 3, even though some states have nearly twice the population of Wyoming and are still at the minimum 3 votes.
In any case, so the left wants to whine about the electoral college distribution using that analogy, but in fact the votes are fairly well distributed among the big boys. When you look at all the major players in the electoral college they have a fairly proportional number of votes based on population. So, I posed this solution to those people...if you took the 8 least populous states, which are all at 1 million people or below (No DC): Wyoming, Vermont, North Dakota, Alaska, South Dakota, Delaware, Montana, and Rhode Island....and you reduced them from their 3 electoral votes to 1 and gave those extra votes to California...Hillary still loses the election. For one, 3 of those states were already blue. The other 5 states would only be flipping 10 electoral votes to blue California, so it does the left no good.
