Comment by lostlogin
18 hours ago
> The electoral college is a feature. It forces you to win across large and small States.
Surely you want the leader that most Americans voted for?
When votes are held in the senate or congress, it’s a straight numbers game. Why aren’t those votes also weighted?
There wouldn’t be many who’d argue that the American political system is in good health. How would you fix it?
> When votes are held in the senate or congress, it’s a straight numbers game. Why aren’t those votes also weighted?
They are weighted - the House is allocated by population, and the Senate by state.
They are weighted in how they are elected. They aren’t weighted in how the members vote.
> Surely you want the leader that most Americans voted for?
I prefer not to live in the Hunger Games world, personally.
Those books are a brilliant exploration of the tyranny of urban clusters.
The electoral college is an effective foil to that.
I wouldn’t call the US system ‘effective’. The US system is spiralling and it’s getting dystopian. The hunger games analogy is fitting, with The Patriot Games coming right up.
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/12/18/politics/patriot-games-an...