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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Lane3 who wrote (92355)10/29/2008 10:53:55 AM
From: Sam  Read Replies (2) of 541515
 

I don't follow that. What is the relationship between the EC and the number of Congressmen from a given state?

The number of electors for any state is the number of Senators plus Representatives. So, by giving each state the same number of Senators no matter what the population (2 for CA and NY and 2 for AK and WY), the EC is skewed toward the lower population states. In recent decades, this has given Republicans a built in advantage, since more lesser populated states (usually states with fewer large urban areas) vote Republican than Democratic. Equal representation by state in the Senate was one of the major disputes in the Constitutional Convention. Why should AK with its 600,000 citizens have the same number of Senators as CA with its roughly 34,000,000 citizens? Is that a fair burden to put on the Senators in the larger states? In the 18th century, they would have pointed to RI with its 60,000 citizens vs. VA with its 700,000 (I might have those numbers slightly off, but they are probably close).
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