So, how much is your vote really worth?

[demo dutch]

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While each of Florida’s 27 electoral delegates represents almost 480,000 eligible voters, each of the three delegates from Wyoming represents only 135,000 eligible voters. That makes a voter casting a presidential ballot in Wyoming three and a half times more influential than a voter in Florida.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/02/opinion/02cowan.html?hp

This is why we need to get rid of the electoral college system. because it favors the red states in the center of the country.

[panader0]

1. In actual dollars, about $10.00

That is the amount of money spent on this long campaign divided bt the number of voters. It's up from about$7.00 fromm 2004.

[BrklynLiberal]

2. Entrenched power will never relinquish it.

[Goblinmonger]

3. The electoral college is a key to our federalist system.

The founders didn't want a true democracy. Would you argue that Wyoming shouldn't have the same number of Senators that California has? The presence of the electoral college attempts to make sure that the smaller states are at least a player in the election. Without it, there is no reason to give a crap about the smaller states. Sure it seems good to us right now to pin everything on California and New York, but I'm not ready to. Remember how sure the Republicans were about term limits when the big bad FDR scared them and then they wanted them gone when Reagan couldn't run for a third term?

[demo dutch]

4. Not wanting a true democracy is exactly right! Proportional representation is true

democracy and the way the college map is designed, Republicans always have the advantage, so in my view the Senators from Wyoming with a much smaller population should not have equal power than Senators from CA or FL or PA who represent a much larger constituency. It's working in Nebraska and the races are much more competitive as a result.