It's called delegate math and is 100% normal
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Replying to @Pinboard @zachdcarter
It's undemocratic. One person one vote.
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Replying to @jilliansw @zachdcarter
It's not undemocratic, and everybody got a vote.
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Replying to @Pinboard @zachdcarter
So you're saying when the Chiefs won the super bowl they should have given the trophy to the 49ers. Yeah right
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Replying to @jilliansw @zachdcarter
Say you have 100 towns of equal size, and every town gets to pick a delegate. You can easily have a situation where candidate A has more votes overall, but concentrated in one area, so that candidate B gets more delegates. There's nothing nefarious or undemocratic about this.
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Replying to @Pinboard @zachdcarter
It's undemocratic as the electoral college is.
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Replying to @jilliansw @zachdcarter
The problem with the electoral college is not that it bins votes together, but that it is all-or-nothing, and has an additional structural bias built into it (no state, however small, can have fewer than 3 votes).
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The amount of mental gymnastics you have to endure to defend the current Iowa results and dissaprove of the Electoral College is amazing.
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It's really not hard. The Electoral College is all-or-nothing, the caucuses aren't.
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Please give one reason why elections shouldn't be decided by popular vote, where one person equals one vote.
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Because all voting systems are a tradeoff. Popular vote can mean permanent majority rule by a geographically concentrated group. There is no one way to set up voting that always gives the result you want
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That's the same argument used to keep the electoral college in place and gave us Bush and Trump. You can spin it anyway you like but there's no reason that a person's voice should matter more because they have less neighbors.
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It's the same reason we vote for congresspeople by district, rather than having a national list.
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