Fahran wrote:Cordel One wrote:Cities wouldn't be deciding anything, though. The majority of the people would, and the fact that so many people focus so much attention on where they live is just weird. Votes are only decided by land because we have the Electoral College.
People do not exist in a vacuum. Political outlooks are certainly determined to some extent by the material conditions and social mores that predominate in particular communal subdivisions. We have the Electoral College at the federal level, in part, because the states were unwilling to ratify the Constitution without some acknowledgement of this fact. Nobody wanted to be dominated by Virginia, New York, and South Carolina.
That is not true. The electoral college was created because the founding fathers didn’t trust the people to make an informed decision. They wanted a way to check the people. This isn’t a discussion about the federal electoral college though