People Provided 28 Fascinating Examples Of Popular Statistics That Are Misunderstood The Most

The electoral college was implemented to handle the problem of huge countries with significantly diverse territories and population. IMHO under these circumstances it's more democratic than popular vote because it ensures the less populated states also have a say in the government. Again: The idea is to prevent the people of the heavily populated states from easily overruling the will of the people in the scarcely populated states. IMHO it still serves its purpose. If everything would be set as the people in New York, Chicago, Huston, LA, etc. like significant portion of the population living in all over of the landmass wouldn't get any attention from the government.

So...the will of the people in the scarcely populated states should overrule the will of the majority in the heavily populated states??? That's f'd up thinking. The majority should rule and the minority should have a voice but not disproportionately. If they don't agree with the majority they cvan debate and argue their point and try to convince the majority, otherwise they muyst be an adult and accept what they don't like.

Protecting the majority should be the rule

No! That is a right wing talking point that carries no water. The Founding Fathers established the Electoral College in the Constitution, in part, as a compromise between the election of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens. However, the term “electoral college” does not appear in the Constitution. Article II of the Constitution and the 12th Amendment refer to “electors,” but not to the “electoral college.” The founding fathers at the constitutional convention argued weather or not the people could be trusted to elect a leader as most were uneducated. The electoral college was created between the two factions arguing for a popular vote and those that wanted the congress to decide the president. The only one that used the term "mob rule" also didn't believe Americans should have the right to own guns. Soooo....

Yep, this!

The electoral college was designed to balance the power between the population in the cities and in the countryside. The government can't just act in favor of the big urban centers and leave the rest behind when we are talking about a huge and diverse country as the US.

Why not? Why won't the people in the countryside abide the will of the people in the city? So you think the people in the city should be ruled by the people in the countryside??? That's bass ackwards.

So Big Ag can hold the country to ransom like Big Tobacco tried to? Try again...

They deserve a voice for local issues pertaining to their jurisdiction. When it comes to the national level, they should have a voice that is 100% proprotionate to their population. With the lowest population state as a base (Wyoming - approx 500,000 population), all other states' electors ashould be based proportionately. So if 500,000 people = 3 electors, then California with 40 million people should have 240 electors (40,000,000 / 500,000 x 3 = 240)

Bruh we have proved MULTIPLE times through many investigations that it wasn’t rigged. Y’all are just sore losers. On the other hand, there is some evidence that the 2016 election was rigged by the Russians…

No proof has ever shown that the 2020 election was rigged. Despite HERCULEAN efforts by MAGA to find some. And insinuation, rumor, delusions, hearsay, baseless comnspiracy theories and fantasies that do not stand up in court are NOT PROOF.

a Prime Minister is usually chosen by the members of Parliament - so the dominant political party in parliament, or, most often, a coalition of parties, decide who will be the nation's executive. People elect the members of Parliament so it is very democratic and often there are more than two political parties with members in Parliament so compromise is a necessity. Much better than the stupid winner takes all system or disproportionate voting power of small scarcely populated states electing the executive. Since every district that elects a member of parliament has approximately the same population, there is no scarcely populated areas that have disproportionate effect on election outcomes.

The system recognizes the idea that a state is a real thing - a political body that may have opinions and interests different from other states. This is especially clear today now that abortion decisions are in the hands of the states.

Maybe South Africa isn't the best example from an historical perspective.

Apartheid was/is abhorrent, I agree. On the 17 of March 1992, white South Africans voted in a referendum to end apartheid and hold the first democratic election. In 1994 Nelson Mandela was the first democratically elected (all races voted in this election) president of the country and for the past 30 years, the SA has held 6 national elections, all deemed to be free and fair. South Africa's democracy was hard fought for and the current system of elections promote equality and transparency, SA uses proportional representation to uphold one of the most modern constitutions (the first in the world to protect LGBTQ people).

It's an excellent example of how you fix a political injustice.

Or how it's governed nowadays.

Um, how does these countries' landmass, geographical and/or population diversity compares to the US? What works well in the small, pretty uniform Norway, Iceland, Finland, or these relatively underpopulated African countries it wouldn't work in the USA. No offence, but how do you figure South-Africa is an actual working democracy?

@Bear Hall Five presidents in US history have lost the "popular vote" (in my country, that's just called the vote, and losing it means you lost the election) and still became president, notably George W. Bush and Donald Trump. In Bush's case, the supreme court ruled to stop the recount (in my country, that would be indicative of a captured judiciary and a stolen election). But whatever, have fun with your "democracy", I'll be voting in a real election :))