By the way, not only are the big states short-changed by the Electoral College, the small ones,
which the Electoral College was designed to shelter get screwed as well. You see, few small or
rural areas get attention either- Montana, Alabama, the Dakotas, Idaho, Alabama, Mississippi.
They get nothing also. So who gets attention? Only the swing states. Insanity, And why?
Because of the Electoral College.
Why would a politician campaign anywhere where the vote of that state was predictable? Why
would either side waste time in California? Or New York? Or Alabama? Or in any of the states
where they had no chance? They wouldn’t. And they don’t. Because of the Electoral College.
And so the fate of the entire nation is often held in check by benighted areas of Ohio or
Florida all because of the Electoral College.
This institution was hatched in 1787. Back then there were 13 states. And these included New
Hampshire, Rhode Island, Connecticut and Delaware — today some of the smallest (the
smallest?) in the union. There was slavery. A black person was legally counted as 3/5 of a
person. Women could not vote. And in 1787 the USA did not even have a president. George
Washington was voted in on 1789. We are in 2016. A few things have changed since 1787.
Let’s change too.
Carl Kruse
Contact: Carl Kruse