• candyman337
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      197 months ago

      Yes, the majority of the population in the US is in the northeast, that’s why people hate the electoral college system. It gives a significant amount of power to a majority voting minority. A better way to represent a minority would be a ranked choice system.

      • Nougat
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        147 months ago

        Electoral college vs ranked choice voting is a false dichotomy. You can do one, the other, both, or neither.

        The way to eliminating the electoral college, since it is enshrined in the constitution, is either a constitutional amendment changing to a popular vote method (highly unlikely), or the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact.

          • candyman337
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            27 months ago

            Yeah I didn’t say it was ever gonna happen unfortunately, I’m just saying it SHOULD happen

    • @Kowowow@lemmy.ca
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      117 months ago

      Well when you are settling east to west some people don’t like taking super long dangerous trips

      • ares35
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        77 months ago

        that yellow space has pretty much all the empty space all the way into minnesota. it’s all big rocks, missile silos, and prairie dogs.

      • @Ranvier@sopuli.xyz
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        7 months ago

        It’s big, not huge, but there’s not a lot of other big cities out west. In terms of metro area population, it falls right in between Detroit and Minneapolis.