Wyoming has 3 electoral votes

>Wyoming has 3 electoral votes
>California has 66.8 times the population of Wyoming
>Therefore it should have 200 electoral votes proportionally
>California only has 55 electoral votes

Really makes you think

It's set up so populous states don't completely dominate the election.

This because historically when major cities politically dominate the rural population it causes major problems.

Commiefornia should have less.

If commiefornia were given that many votes, then it should be broken up into smaller states to compensate. A single state entity should not have that much power over the rest of the country, regardless of population.

The people are not sovereign in the United States. The states are.

Because it makes it too easy for the big boys to bully the little boys.

You should just randomly select a shadow council from the tax payers every 4 years.

Way more fun, plus silly robes.

It's set up to prevent actual democracy.

As it's set up right now, the electoral college winds up voting quite close to the popular vote.
Giving more votes to states with large cities would upset that balance. There are a lot of people that don't live in the city in populous states like California, but because of the winner take all system, their vote is basically trashed. Giving California more votes will only amplify the effect.

Good thing it's a Republic then

As the US is a republic and not a democracy that makes sense.

I wouldn't mind California having 200 electoral votes if it wasn't winner-take-all.

>lol let's just invalidate 45% of the conservatives votes and give these extra 90 electoral votes to Hillary!

I mean, it kinda happens already now in CA, NY, and IL. Republicans lose approximately 40-50 electoral votes to winner-take-all in solid blue states. Texas is the only solid red state that takes democrat votes away. No other solid red state has this.

Democrats have a huge advantage every election since 1964. The fact that Reagan and Nixon won in landslides is a miracle.

ITT trumpfag damage control

>I mean, it kinda happens already now in CA, NY, and IL. Republicans lose approximately 40-50 electoral votes to winner-take-all in solid blue states. Texas is the only solid red state that takes democrat votes away. No other solid red state has this.

And I should clarify, no other solid red state *larger than 20 electoral votes* has this advantage, because there isn't a solid red state larger than 20 EVs, other than Texas.

That's right, our founders hated institutionalized mob rule. Ben Franklin correctly described democracy as two wolves and a sheep voting on what's for dinner.

Did you know they carried out legal killings in ancient greece because they took a vote on it?

And that the first lawmaker to impose common law was considered too harsh for doing so?

Except they end up dominating anyways. 55 points is fucking bullshit

can someone fucking explain this epic meme to me?
How the fuck is a republic NOT a democracy, what are you going to tell me that my country is not democratic too?

Let Wyoming import massive numbers of hostile third worlders and then measure it.

Other red states would have more votes too if it was set up like this. Pointless thread is pointless.

I believe it was Madison who defined "republic" to mean a system where sovereignty rests with a body of representatives, as opposed to a "democracy" where sovereignty rests with the people. Of course, this definition is retarded because the United Kingdom is suddenly a republic, but Americans like to pretend their political philosophers are important to subscribe to his definitions.

Good, fucking California. It should have 0 electoral votes.

>what are you going to tell me that my country is not democratic too?
SOON.
t. Matteo

What is math?

it means the minority has some power

You are a republic Ital bro.

Basically if you have a constitution and elected officials you're a republic. A democracy votes through everything and is unrestrained in what it can vote on.

>How the fuck is a republic NOT a democracy

Because it mean popular vote doesn't dictate everything, there are common laws that protect everyone no matter how people vote, laws that protect your speech, your right to defend yourself, your right to a trial, etc. It means people can't vote to take away these things no matter how popular hating freedom becomes.

As for what the US is it's a Union (or confederacy) of sovereign states, with a federal government choosing the overall direction and restrictions on the powers of each state and other shit like that.

House of Representatives is proportional to population, so some states only have 1 representative from their state, while California has 53 representatives. However, each state gets only 2 Senators, so that means the lowest populated states get 3 votes no matter what.

Which is why they'd never allow proportional or the congressional district methods of allocating electoral votes.

It's TJ's fault.