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by krapp 591 days ago
>I still can't support changing the electoral college. A few cities deciding the election for everyone feels horribly unfair, and undemocratic.

... unless those cities are in Iowa, Vermont, and Nevada, in which case you're fine with it?

I mean, the EC is so unfair and undemocratic that Presidential candidates avoid states entirely where the political calculus says they simply won't matter. And it's ridiculous to assume that when a candidate does show up in a diner in Iowa to order whatever meal their campaign staff says will most appeal to the locals, work on an assembly line, or whatever, that they actually care about anything those voters have to say.

They don't have to care about the voters, they just have to care about the numbers. Remove the EC and the voters actually matter.