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bunchanumbers on 30 November 2016
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outlawauron said:
bunchanumbers said:

It won't cater to 5 metropolitan areas. It would cater to the whole country. You can't tell me there isn't republicans in those cities. Just the same as you can't tell me there's no democrats in all those red states. Most people don't even bother to vote anymore because they know their votes mean nothing. Abolishing the college would bring real validity back to everyone instead of a few dozen guys who may or may not listen to the will of their people. Let the people decide. If it is abolished the first thing that happens is that in the big cities there will be more republican voices crying out. There will be more democrat voices in the republican areas too. Interest will return to politics and we will finally be a real democracy instead of this farce.

False. With 5 metropolitan areas, you can effectively win the popular vote. You can completely ignore the rest of the country and focus on LA, NY, Chicago, Philly, and DAL/HOU. With that, there are 60 million people in those areas alone. Why would any politician ever visit Iowa, North Carolina, New Hampshire, Nevada, or Colorado again? They and everyone living there would be reduced to irrelevance.

The idea that completely open democracy would give everyone a voice is a farce. Electoral college was created so that the little guy (i.e. everything between the East and West coasts) couldn't be completely ignored. It attachs value to areas that people wouldn't care about otherwise.

When the Electoral College was made California wasn't around. Same with every state outside of the colonies. I doubt the founding fathers thought this far ahead. The electoral college was useful back in the day to appease the slave states but those days are over. Voter apathy is at an all time high. People already don't care because they know their votes mean nothing and have meant nothing for decades. State governments are to give the little guy a voice. Its why congress and the senate exist. You act like it would be anarchy but it would be far from it.