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Another fun fact. They think getting rid of the electoral college would give NYC the power of the election. It would be 2%. And the entire city would have to vote one way. You'd still need 48% from somewhere else.
Nah, they just know it would shift the balance of power from rural to urban and that they would lose that battle every time since about 80% of the US population lives in urban areas and most people in cities vote left.
Fix apportionment and the electoral college is fine. And Congress gets fixed too.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reapportionment_Act_of_1929
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huntington%E2%80%93Hill_method
Getting rid of the electoral college would be fine, too, with the added benefit of everyone having an equal vote. The only "good thing" about just revamping it is keeping the facade for rural voters
The second good thing about revamping it is fixing the balance of power in the house, giving more (proportional) power to urban centers as well.
It's crazy how interacting with a lot of people of various different backgrounds has a tendency to push people to the left, whereas having a half-mile long driveway makes it easy to stay conservative.
I think CGPGrey was the one that said even the top 10 largest cities would only give 8%. And not all cities go one way. Our city in NY has a lot of Republican support. NYC would have like 40% siphoned off too. Which would cut even more into the majority.