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Go ask a fucking civics professor if you’re still confused.

  • Demographics are more than just urban vs rural. State geography can take into account things like culture, borders, coast, national parks and forests and a lot of other stuff.

I think the issue is that smaller states wouldn’t be able to influence any legislation because the bigger states could ignore their issues without consequence. It’s one of the many checks and balances in the constitution that prevent any political player from holding too much power over others.

I explicitly say Senate in my comment — and nowhere mention the EC — particularly to defend it against this HamNo line (I didn’t use the quote in the original comment because I thought it was obvious to those who read the blog post):

HamNo is so goddamn entitled that if his opinions aren’t reflected in the legislation then he wants to tear up the constitution. It’s obnoxious.

Every vote for the loser of an election does not count, regardless of whether it’s a popular vote or electoral college.

Isn’t the point of the Senate that the voices of the people living in Rhode Island and Wyoming aren’t ignored in favor of the voices of people living in NY and California?

“No. No Trump call. No Trump call,” Manning said.