The founders of this country were much smarter than and more responsible than our current Congressional representatives.
Only 319 Square Miles
Fantastic explanation!!!!
Last week the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives introduced a bill to eliminate the electoral college. It seems that, since they couldn't win the last presidential election under the rules that have existed for almost 250 years, they want to change the rules. Below is an excellent explanation of why this is a very bad idea.
Subject: 319 Square Miles
A 39 second read you will want to pass on.
In their infinite wisdom, the United States ' Founders created the Electoral College to ensure the STATES were fairly represented. Why should one or two densely populated areas speak for the whole of the nation?
The following list of statistics has been making the rounds on the Internet. It should finally put an end to the argument as to why the Electoral College makes sense.
Do share this. It needs to be widely known and understood.
There are 3,141 counties in the United States.
Trump won 3,084 of them.
Clinton won 57.
There are 62 counties in New York State.
Trump won 46 of them.
Clinton won 16.
Clinton won the popular vote by approx. 1.5 million votes.
In the 5 counties that encompass NYC, (Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Richmond (or Staten Island) & Queens) Clinton received well over 2 million more votes than Trump. ( Clinton only won 4 of these counties; Trump won Richmond )
Therefore these 5 counties alone, more than accounted for Clinton winning the popular vote of the entire country.
These 5 counties comprise 319 square miles.
The United States is comprised of 3,797,000 square miles.
When you have a country that encompasses almost 4 million square miles of territory, it would be ludicrous to even suggest that the vote of those who inhabit a mere 319 square miles should dictate the outcome of a national election.
Large, densely populated Democrat cities (NYC, Chicago, LA, etc.) DO NOT and SHOULD NOT speak for the rest of our country!
And...it's been verified and documented that those aforementioned 319 square miles are where the majority of our nation's problems foment.
Well worth the 39 seconds to read.
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5 comments:
well they forgot to require the same for the states. every state is dominated by one or two big cities that throws the election to who got the majority votes, not who represents the most areas!
So what you're saying is people in rural areas should count more than people in metropolitan areas? Doesn't really make a lot of sense... every one person's vote should be equal, not weighted. I don't care how many counties somebody one, I care about how many people actually voted for a particular candidate
Yes, well worth the time it took to read. Amazing facts everyone that thinks the electoral college is unnecessary should read
Very true 7:18
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