Comments by "Theodore Shulman" (@ColonelFredPuntridge) on "Why The Electoral College Exists" video.
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@GMeza-cy5xv That's bunk. The purpose of the EC was not to protect anyone from anything. It was to make national elections practical at a time when there was no such thing as electronic communication and the only way to obtain information about a candidate was for a person to transmit the information in person by traveling, either by having the candidate come speak in person or by having a messenger or postal courier bring the information in writing or in memory. So the flow of information was limited by the speed of a horse-drawn carriage (or, if the sender and recipient were both in coastal towns, by the speed of a sailing ship). Go review the Federalist Papers, number 68.
The Electoral College does disproportionately favor small states, but that was only written in because without it, the small states would have refused to ratify the Constitution. So it was an extorted compromise which should have been scrapped a century ago, and now is severely harming USA and the institution of representative democracy.
And no, a vote in Nebraska does not have the same power as a vote in California. California has approximately 20 times higher population than Nebraska, but only eleven times as many votes in the Electoral College. So each vote from California only counts a little more than half as much as each vote from Nebraska. This is the opposite of how it should be, because Californians have done SO much more to enrich USA than Nebraskans. How many world-changing, super-profitable new technologies have been invented, or moved from the lab into the mainstream of society, in Nebraska??? We should be selectively giving Californians MORE voting power, not less.
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