What "advantage do the Democrats have in the Electoral College" ?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

Three times the GOP won the Electoral College and the election while the Democrats won the popular vote, two times in the last five elections.


Why isn't anybody questioning this mamaluke ?

[rogue emissary]

1. They won't even ask him how he came to that conclusion.

The press just accepts it as a fact and moves on to one of a thousand other lies he routinely spews out.

[burnbaby]

2. so each state

gets the same representation. That's how I remember it being taught. if not NYC and CA would be running the country

[LeftInTX]

5. EC is determined by the population of each state.

CA has the most.
TX has the 2nd most
FL and NY are tied for 3rd.

[burnbaby]

6. right

again it's representation of each state

[burnbaby]

11. it doesn't matter how many people voted in CA

they still get i think it's 50 EC votes. I'm not sure if the 3 million is just for CA or the country

[bearsfootball516]

12. Popular vote doesn't really matter

Hillary had 3 million more votes because she ran up huge margins in places like California and New York, but you still only get a specific number of electoral votes no matter how many votes you get in those states. Then she didn't have good turnout in swing states like Michigan and Pennsylvania.

[mr_lebowski]

15. Of course youre 100% right ...

Dunno what I was thinking, just woke up, no coffee yet ... deleted the post.

[unblock]

9. electoral votes are determined by representation in congress, not the population.

if a state has 10 representatives and 2 senators, then it have 12 electoral votes.


so it is roughly based on population, but smaller states have an advantage due to the extra two votes each state gets simply for being a state.

[n2doc]

10. Except the # of EC votes varies by state population

Because the US capped the total at 525 back early last century. Number of EC representatives per voter varies widely

The average electoral vote represents 436,000 people, but that number rises and falls per state depending on that state’s population over 18 years of age. (The map above shows the population 18 years and older per electoral vote by state.) The states with the fewest people per electoral vote, and therefore the highest “vote power,” are Wyoming, Vermont, and North Dakota. In Wyoming, there are 143,000 people for each of its three electoral votes. The states with the weakest votes are New York, Florida, and California. These states each have around 500,000 people for each electoral vote.

See
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/map_of_the_week/2012/11/presidential_election_a_map_showing_the_vote_power_of_all_50_states.html

[Arkansas Granny]

3. I doubt that any of our news organizations have the budget or

the staff necessary to perform that task. Lies issue from his mouth every time he breathes.

[D_Master81]

4. CA, NY, IL

The GOP media machine will say that these 3 states = 100 EC votes, so a DEM only has to win another 170 outside of those 3 states.

[unblock]

7. it's really just that the "solid/likely blue" electoral votes are more than the "solid/likely red"

so republicans have to get more of the "leans" and "toss-ups" than democrats.


it's not a structural advantage democrats have, we have the advantage because we're the preferred party.


"waahhh! this race is not fair because the other guy is faster than me! wahhh!"

[Persondem]

13. In 2000 the FL GOP flat out cheated

plus the SCOTUS selected the president.

Not sure it's all on the Electoral College.

If less than 100k voters across 3 states hadn't been conned we wouldn't have twitler for president now.

[NewJeffCT]

14. we've had a lot of people questioning this

they've started a national popular vote movement.