This graphic showed up on my Facebook news feed as a statement against the Electoral College.
I looked at it and then thought: Wait a minute! What’s so terribly wrong with giving smaller states, such as Wyoming, a greater voice in the election of the president of the United States?
California has those 55 electoral votes; Texas has 38 of them; Florida has 29.
I remain officially undecided about whether to toss the Electoral College aside. It would require an amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
But the more I think about it, the less inclined I am to support such a drastic measure.
The 2016 election ended with the “loser” winning nearly 3 million more popular votes than the “winner.” But the guy who won carried the Electoral College, which is what the founders intended.
I happen to be one who doesn’t begrudge little ol’ Wyoming the extra stroke it gets from the Electoral College.
When did power sharing become a bad thing?