Well, the electoral college isn't the reason he got elected, it's one of them. Also, it's more complicated. How to explain?
Imagine you are a member of the European Union, and Austria is a state in the European Union. Austria has a certain number of delegates and votes in the election of the leader of the Union. But its population is say lower than Germany or France. With the number of delegates that you were provided - you get say 10 votes. If you did away with that number of delegates - your population would be counted, and your population is say 3% - or a 3% voting power, in comparison to France, a more populous country with say 40%. Under the electoral college - you'd have have 10, France maybe 20. With popular voting, you'd have a 3% say, and France a 40% say. Is Austria going to do away with electoral college to give France more voting power?
To do away with the electoral college - all 50 states have to agree. That means a state like say Hawaii or Iowa or Kansas, would have to literally go to maybe 2% or 1 % voting power, and the decision would be decided by New York, California, Illinois, and Boston - would they ratify for that?
That's why we can't just do away with the electoral college.
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Date: 2020-06-09 03:56 pm (UTC)Imagine you are a member of the European Union, and Austria is a state in the European Union. Austria has a certain number of delegates and votes in the election of the leader of the Union. But its population is say lower than Germany or France. With the number of delegates that you were provided - you get say 10 votes. If you did away with that number of delegates - your population would be counted, and your population is say 3% - or a 3% voting power, in comparison to France, a more populous country with say 40%. Under the electoral college - you'd have have 10, France maybe 20. With popular voting, you'd have a 3% say, and France a 40% say. Is Austria going to do away with electoral college to give France more voting power?
To do away with the electoral college - all 50 states have to agree. That means a state like say Hawaii or Iowa or Kansas, would have to literally go to maybe 2% or 1 % voting power, and the decision would be decided by New York, California, Illinois, and Boston - would they ratify for that?
That's why we can't just do away with the electoral college.