Originally posted by: Robert Davis
It won't ever happen. I compared CA, WY and TX. In Wyoming, there are 83,553 registered voters per electoral vote. In California, there are 418,438 registered voters per electoral vote. It's worse in Texas where there are 465,598 registered voters per electoral vote. Neither political party should want such a discrepency. Take care.
Well, as far as what either party should want--the Republicans benefit far more from that discrepancy than the Democrats do, so it's unrealistic to expect them to want to do anything but maintain the status quo. They also benefit from Puerto Rico being continually denied statehood. And then there's the Senate, which awards 50 of its 100 representatives to 16% of the population, most of whom are Republicans.
You want the really horrible discrepancy, compare Wyoming's Senate representation on a per capita basis to that of either California or Texas. It's almost as bad in the House, where, for instance, California has 80 times the population of Wyoming but only 18 times as many electoral votes. That means that a voter in Wyoming has more than four times as much influence over the Presidential election as does a voter in California (or Texas).
Undemocratic? You betcha. But like the system of slavery that spawned our fucked-up election process, it persists because it benefits a rich and powerful minority.
