Don’t be silly. Did I ever say the electoral college should be abolished? All we have to do is make the number of electors equal to the number of congressman. In that case the 22 least populous states would have 33.8 million people and 50 electoral votes. California would have 36 million people and 53 electoral votes. See, it’s just as easy to do it fairly.
What’s the harm in that? How does giving small states a disproportionate amount of presidential electors help the democratic process?
Bear in mind that this will never happen. The small states are not going to give up their extra juice, and why should they? For the sake of fairness? Ha Ha, it is to laugh.
Fortunately, most people are unconcerned about whether abstract entities are being mistreated, as long as it doesn’t result in some gross unfairness to living, breathing human beings.
Can’t see why not, as long as Rudy the Magic Rooster was given that power through the votes of the duly constituted state legislature.
I’d say they’re just being altruistic, placing the votes of the nation as a whole above the votes of the people of their own state.
If the people of a state choose to be ‘unfair’ to themselves, why should anyone else be upset anyway?
But if the compact were on the verge of taking effect, and I were a state legislator in one of the states that had in effect ratified the compact, I’d spend a lot of time in my district, reminding my constituents of the compact and its effects, and making sure relatively few of them had second thoughts. This isn’t the sort of thing I’d want to see my hypothetical constituents caught by surprise by, even in a lopsided election, let alone a close one.