{"id":18862,"date":"2016-12-27T17:18:53","date_gmt":"2016-12-27T17:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=18862"},"modified":"2016-12-27T17:18:53","modified_gmt":"2016-12-27T17:18:53","slug":"give-the-smaller-states-a-louder-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=18862","title":{"rendered":"Give the smaller states a louder voice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/15109480_1313790452047339_7350113820800258302_n.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-18863\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/15109480_1313790452047339_7350113820800258302_n-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/15109480_1313790452047339_7350113820800258302_n-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/15109480_1313790452047339_7350113820800258302_n-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/15109480_1313790452047339_7350113820800258302_n-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/15109480_1313790452047339_7350113820800258302_n.png 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This graphic showed up on my Facebook news feed as a statement against the Electoral College.<\/p>\n<p>I looked at it and then thought: Wait a minute! What&#8217;s so terribly wrong with giving smaller states, such as Wyoming, a greater voice in the election of the president of the United States?<\/p>\n<p>California has those 55 electoral votes; Texas has 38 of them; Florida has 29.<\/p>\n<p>I remain officially undecided about whether to toss the Electoral College aside. It would require an amendment to the U.S. Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>But the more I think about it, the less inclined I am to\u00a0support such a drastic measure.<\/p>\n<p>The 2016 election ended with the &#8220;loser&#8221; winning nearly 3 million more popular votes than the &#8220;winner.&#8221; But the guy who won carried the Electoral College, which is what the founders intended.<\/p>\n<p>I happen to be one who doesn&#8217;t begrudge little ol&#8217; Wyoming the extra stroke it gets from the Electoral College.<\/p>\n<p>When did power sharing become a bad thing?<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=18862\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Give the smaller states a louder voice<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[74,1551,6680,5043],"class_list":["post-18862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-2016-election","tag-electoral-college","tag-popular-vote","tag-us-constitution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18864,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18862\/revisions\/18864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}