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irstupid on 16 March 2017
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palou said:
barneystinson69 said:

You can remove California AND Texas, and Trump would win. Running up margins don't matter in the US, which I feel is a bit of a fair system. Just because you win huge in California, New York, and Illinois, doesn't mean that should decide the election. 

If more people want you than the other guy, why not? Why give more value to the vote of people just because they live in a smaller state/swing state?

To prevent mob vote.

Imagine your in High School and you have your whole student council meeting to discuss where to put extracurriculer funding. You have 20 people in art, 15 people in drama/theater, you have 10 people in math club, 5 people in chess club, ect. Add up to 99 people. 

Then you have 100 people in Basketball/football/ect. The sports. IF we go with pure popular vote, guess who has 100% of the say all the time. The sports people would get ot decide everything.

THe point of the electoral college is ot prevent that. It makes it so that the little guy is not ignored.

Or in real world terms. It makes it so that the smaller states are not ignored and only California, New York, ect have all the say.