NYC, LA, Chicago MSAs (city plus suburbs) are only like 12% of the population.
three dots on the US map making up 12% of the population and voting virtually as a monolith is self evident domination. You just explained the problem to yourself. You get that 12% to vote the way you want to and you dominate any national vote. It's not debatable. Throw in all the other huge reliably left voting urban strongholds and you probably have closer to half the population who lives in similar urban environments voting nationally in ways that benefit them but fvck everyone else.
It's an obvious strategy just like allowing illegal aliens to pour in and vote without ID's Just like lowering the voting age to 16. Just like challenging the idea of 2 senators per state regardless of population. Just like trying to get DC and Puerto Rico statehood so you can stack the democratic senators.
It's well north of obvious. I would have so much respect for you if you would just have the balls to admit it, own it and not try to cloak it in something it's not.
Getting rid of the EC absolutely FVCKS states with low populations like Oklahoma and makes our votes irrelevant by comparison to how NY, LA, Chicago want to vote. Getting rid of the EC is second only to getting rid of the 2nd Amendment in assuring violent conflict, secession and worse. It's moronic because it's incredibly shortsighted and in my opinion, clearly UnAmerican.
1. This is not a democracy. It's a representative republic. The EC is essential for that.
2. States like Colorado are going to love it when Trump changes his strategy and wins the national vote and they have to cast all their delegate votes to him when they wouldn't have had to otherwise, BECAUSE...
3. The strategy between campaigning for the EC vs Campaigning for the popular vote is exactly like the difference in game planning a football game for points on the scoreboard vs who got the most total yards.
4. In a representative republic, the popular vote is IRRELEVANT. It is only an issue because Trump won and because people choose to congregate in dense urban areas where they cancel out the power of each others stupid commie votes in terms of EC power.
5. Trump or someone else you don't want in power would simply change their strategy. Trump could easily have picked up enough votes in Cali or his home state of NY if it were at all worth his time to campaign there.
6. The numbers in the 2016 popular vote are highly unreliable because we don't have the slightest idea how many illegals voted or how much other voter fraud was involved. There are many who believe the 2018 election included willingly letting the house fall so as to document voter fraud methodology. I am not convinced of this, but within this theory, the difference between Hillary's vote total and Trump's falls easily within the margin of error.
7. You might be careful what you wish for here. Setting afire what's worked very well (compared to popular vote systems elsewhere) for 250 years will absolutely bite you in the ass with unintended consequences at some future point.
Do not fvck with the Constitution.
