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On Nov 4, 1:42 pm, dxAce wrote:

But then the power would all be concentrated in the states with major
population
centres.

You Liberal/Democrat/Marxists need to stop whining.

No, just exactly the opposite.

Popular vote would give every person in the USA *exactly* the same
vote for president in a single national election.
Whereas the electoral college OVER-REPRESENTS low-population states,
because they get 3 "FREEBIE" electoral votes no matter how small the
state population is. Theoretically, a state could have 1 resident
with 3 electoral votes, to take the silly extreme, vs. a tiny fraction
of a millionth of an electoral vote in a large state.

It may come as a revelation, but a lot more people live in cities and
surrounding suburbs, than live in rural areas.
States with big population centers also have more voters who need
represented.

Devil's advocate time. I would like to see the electoral college done away
with, too.. but there is some built-in regulation the

Yes, even a state with a tiny population, such as Montana, Wyoming, and
Alaska, has 3 votes in the electoral college. This is because every state
has two senators and a minimum of one member of the House of
Representatives. However, additional House members are added based directly
upon population of each state. This does tend to even out the electoral
votes a bit so that, in general, the electoral college is somewhat
representative of the popular vote... and then there are elections like this
one. These happen because the cities tend, in general, to be liberal, and
vote Democrat by a small margin (usually around 60/40 or thereabouts),
whereas small towns and rural areas tend to be more conservative, and vote
Republican by a somewhat larger margin (closer to 80/20). Based on
populations, this means the popular vote ends up more or less equal (usually
no more than 5 points plus or minus). The electoral college, however, votes
preferentially to elect on the basis of large population centers, so the
electoral college numbers can skew quite far from the norm (as with this
election).

The results are generally the same, either way. Very seldom does the
electoral college go a different direction from the popular vote, but it can
and does happen occasionally (as with the 2000 election).