Sheriff Bart
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Correct but the founders effort to make sure that everyone is represented has given a disproportionate amount of power to the minority of people.The numbers make sense and we know as it stands today that a divergence in the electoral college results when compared to the popular vote results more likely favors Trump. Even though Bush beat Gore in 2000 in similar fashion, leading up to that election the odds of such a split actually more favored Gore to be the beneficiary of such a split. Over time those type chances can flip flop.
Today it's more likely because of how polarized the nation is and people tend to "live with their own". We live under a federalist system where the states are supposed to share power with the federal government and this system does give power to those individual states. It's the very same reason we have a separate House and Senate and why one gives states more power while the other is strictly based on population. I always find it interesting since Trump's election that the electoral college system that's spelled out in the Constitution comes under fire the most from the same folks who called Trump a threat to the Constitution.
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