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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (99661)	12/3/2000 7:02:18 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (2) of 769670

Rhode Island has a population of 991,000. It has 4 electoral votes. That means 1 vote per 247,750 residents. California has 33,145,000. It has 54 electoral votes. That means 1 vote per 614,000 residents. So each Rhode Islander gets 2.48 times as many electoral votes as each Californian. and it works proportionately for other states. A state is guaranteed two representatives regardless of how low its population is. This currently does not create too great a disparity; a Rhode Islander gets 1.28 times as many representatives in the House as a Californian. BUT the guarantee of two US Senators really skews things. It means that large states get representatives (and electoral votes) essentially in proportion to their percentage of US population. But if a states population is just 2% of US population (meaning it has just enough population to "earn" its representatives), it gets DOUBLE its "earned" representation in the electoral college. And if its population is below 2% of US population, it gets even more per capita representation in the electoral college. Look, the ec is biased towards small states. Period. ANs that is what was intended in the US Constitution.

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