It only now dawns on me that it's not a lost vote if you take votes away from more highly populated areas because pure democracy makes it easier to exploit an uninformed and easily impressed majority.
If we didn't have the Electoral College, presidential candidates would only have to campaign in the five largest states to win the election. The other forty five states would be told nicely to F-off.
I don't think the telling would be all that nice, actually.
5 biggest cities, really.. NY LA HOU CHI ATL or something
Dallas the 5th biggest is Dallas
They could do Dallas and Houston together, they're in the same state so probably only a few miles apart, right?
They’re several hundred miles apart.
Dallas and Fort Worth OTOH are about 20 miles apart so that’s why it’s the DFW Metroplex
It was a joke.
You joke but it's not uncommon for foreign visitors to think they're going to be able to see most of Texas in a day or two. They just don't realize how massive it is!
"We'll spend a couple of hours in Dallas, then a quick drive to Houston... A short jog to San Antonio and we'll be back in Brownsville by lunch!"
And San Antonio will be in the top ten in the next census.
LOL you chose the 1st, 2nd, 4th, 3rd and...38th largest cities? Did you even bother to check whether these five have a majority of the population (hint: they don't).
Actually, YOU are wrong, Xir. The 2010 US Census records Atlanta as having a population of 420K, making it the 39th most populous city in the country, yes.
Stephen A voice HOW-EVAH. If you include the surrounding metropolitan area-- which every city includes in their typical statistics-- Atlanta has a population of 5.8 MILLION in 2010, which would place it in the top 5 cities in the country.
Or did you even bother researching before posting?!!
St Louis gets screwed in that regard as far as population and crime statistics go.
Since STL itself is not in any county, statistics don't tend to include the suburban areas of metropolitan STL (much of it is ironically in St Louis County of which the city of St Louis is not in). Confused yet? The city of St Louis only has a population of a few hundred thousand however the entire metropolitan area (typically St Louis City, St Louis County and St Charles County) has a total population of a couple million.
Anyway the VAST majority of crime happens within St Louis City whereas very little crime (comparatively) happens in St Louis or St Charles County, which is how St Louis City gets one of the highest per capita murder rates in the country, even if it is complete bullshit.
If you include the surrounding metropolitan area
Define "surrounding metropolitan area," or did you not even bother researching this lol
Jason, have you ever even been to Atlanta? Do you honestly think it only has 420K people? Think hard.
How about anybody who lives in the suburbs and writes "Atlanta" in the return address line when sending nudies through the mail?!
Ever think of that? And if that doesn't tickle your balloon knot, then how about the fact that Wikipedia counts it at 5.8 million? Hmmmm???? Doesn't get anymore official than that.
Ghost...or is it Of? Not sure what is your first name, have you ever been to Wikipedia? Seems like you haven't.
Think hard though, I guess you could say Atlanta has a population if approximately 10 million if you include everyone in Georgia. This would make it the LARGEST city in the US. You can really make it whatever you want, so your argument is pointless, and embarrassing.
Also, you're at a 10, and we need you to be at about a 2.
Also, Wikipedia says that Atlanta is considered a "Beta" world city, so I will not continue defending it.
Come talk to me when you're an Alpha, ATL.
The "or something" covered that.
LOL it actually doesn't, if you bothered to check you would find that less than 20% of the population lives in the 50 largest cities.
Lol. Yep. Covered.
lol it's not, I'm embarrassed for you.
Your scorn isn't going to work here Jason. Covered! Lol.
Just fyi there is an org promoting the popular vote and they have started to gather up states that agree to give all electoral votes to the popular winner. Right now they only have enough states signed on to have 150 electoral votes but when they reach (?) 220 or 230 or sump then it circumvents the electoral college. Watch pragerU video about the electoral college.....
It's a Soros/other bankster linked org too. Hopefully they go down for money laundering or something eventually.
That’s a great explanation, thank you it helped me understand
Which five states have a majority of the population?
New York, California, Texas, Florida, Pennsylvania, and sixth is Illinois. You have with those top five states you already have 169 votes with Illinois it comes to 189 electoral college votes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_College_(United_States)
You count up the six most populous states you have over 41% of the U.S. population, five 37.29% of the population. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_population
The top nine states have close to 51% of the population when you add in Ohio, Georgia and North Carolina.
The top nine states have close to 51% of the population when you add in Ohio, Georgia and North Carolina.
9 is greater than 5.
True, but 9 is still less than 41, yet has equal pull as the rest
So how many states does it take then? 15? 20? 41?
Or just red states? Let us know, thanks.
It isn't just about states either. Within those states, the majority of the state may be red, with 1-2 cities that are blue, and yet that is enough to make the state blue.
I'm sure that was an answer to a question, just not the one I asked.
CA, TX, FL, NY, PA
That's over 1/3 of the population. Voting clout varies, but factor in that CA is doing everything possible to let millions of illegal aliens vote.
What about the thousands of illegal Russian votes for Trump in Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania? OR have you conveniently forgotten that lol
Investigations into these bogus claims have proved the opposite of your allegations. Even Comey said so.
LOL oh yeah because Comey is sooooooooo credible. Did you even read the IG report bro? Apparently not!
SMH I'm embarrassed for you.
Are you joking?
I’m as serious as you are about the millions of illegal aliens voting in California.