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  1. Just to give a primer on how bizarre the EC is: In 2020, 6,006,429 people in California voted for Donald Trump, which is more than ANY OTHER STATE including Texas (5,890,347). 100% of those 6,006,429 votes helped elect Joe Biden as part of California's 55 Electoral College votes.

  2. This is nothing but a non-stop torrent of straw men and fabrications. "You can get people to be perfect eventually if give the state more control and stop certain thoughts." ??? I never hear progressives talking like this – Republicans are the ones doing this, banning books in school, banning discussion of LGBT issues, etc. "51% of the population shouldn't tell the 49% of the population what to do." With the electoral college it's possible to win the Presidency with only 26% of the vote by winning all the smallest states until you get to 270 EC. "We should have an electoral college so the biggest population centers can't tell everyone else what to do." That's not the reason for the EC! The EC was created to solve a problem: slaves couldn't vote so the Southern States didn't want to join the union since they would be politically dominated by the more populated North. They didn't want to give slaves the vote but still wanted to count them in some way. Solution: count them as 3/5 for the purposes of representation in the House and then each state gets votes scaled to how much representation they have in Congress. "New York and Los Angeles telling everyone who the President should be" – NY + LA combined have 3.7% of the US population how does that determine the election? Even counting all of LA county and the entire New York-Newark-Jersey City area, that's still only 9% of the country. Note people like Crenshaw always zero in on CA and NY, and ignore #2 TX and #3 FL. "They would only be campaigning in the big population centers." The "big population centers" is where people actually live and work and where the GDP comes from. CA, NY and TX are ignored along with every other "red" and "blue" state large and small and only swing states get attention. I don't recall a lot of visits to rural Mississippi, Massachusetts or Utah during Presidential races. If we get rid of the EC EVERY VOTE COUNTS in rural, suburban and urban areas.

  3. Because of the electoral college nearly all of the candidates' campaign efforts/money go to the "swing" states before the election and afterwards those states get a larger share of federal funds, arguably in an effort to keep the swing votes in future election. The argument that "LA and New York would be telling the rest of the country what to do" belies the fact that the difference would be every person would have one vote and every vote would matter, which is not currently the case. I used to live in Oregon and I didn't vote because my vote didn't count, period. Oregon is always blue so why would I waste my time voting? Well if my vote actually counted I would absolutely be at the polls because my voice would matter, duh…

  4. Crenshaw completely glossed over Rogan's comment that the majority of Americans don't live in NY or LA. If you acknowledge that more people live outside of NY and LA or NY and CA, then how is it that those two cities or those two states could determine the outcome of the election by themselves? In the 2020 election, only 16.5% of the turnout was from NY or CA. Imagine we have an election with 100 people. How would 17 people determine who the winner is? It seems to me the 83 would have more to say about the outcome than the 17. Interestingly, Biden got more votes from FL and TX each than he did NY. The largest 38 metros have a slight majority of the nation's population, and not every voter from those metros are going to vote for the same candidate. If candidates, under a popular vote, think they can only show up to large urban areas and win the election, they're sorely mistaken. Crenshaw is making the common mistake of overestimating the size of big states and/or big cities.

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