{"id":143,"date":"2004-09-28T23:09:46","date_gmt":"2004-09-28T23:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=143"},"modified":"2004-09-28T23:09:46","modified_gmt":"2004-09-28T23:09:46","slug":"electoral-college-hurts-my-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=143","title":{"rendered":"Electoral College Hurts My Brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some comments on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/robin_d_laws\/42080.html\">Robin D. Laws&#8217; livejournal<\/a> have started fuzzing up my brain.<br \/>\nThe US has an electoral college system, wherein each state can cast a certain number of votes in the Presidential election, from 3 to 20-something (I think).  However, each state is run as a mini-election &#8211; and in almost all states, the winner in the state election gets all the state&#8217;s votes in the overall election.  That is, it isn&#8217;t proportional.  If a state has 10 votes, and candidate A wins the election 51% to 49%, all 10 votes go to candidate A.<br \/>\nNow this seems absurd and archaic to me.<br \/>\nHowever, LJ user <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/jbru\/\">jbru<\/a> then said:<br \/>\n&#8220;The electoral college, however, is a mechanism by which the individual voter has a <i>greater<\/i> say in the outcome of the election. See http:\/\/www.avagara.com\/e_c\/reference\/00012001.htm&#8221;<br \/>\nNow I&#8217;m not sure.  Its one of those things where I <i>think<\/i> I understand the nuances &#8211; but I&#8217;m not 100% sure I do.  Is it in fact the case that when I vote, I want the outcome to be determined by the majority of my fellow voters?  Or do I want a system that makes each individual vote more powerful (i.e. more likely to swing an election)?<br \/>\nIf anyone&#8217;s still reading you&#8217;re clearly interested in either logic puzzles or politics or both.  So go read the links, both of them.  If you&#8217;re feeling really motivated you can check the logic of my posts there&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some comments on Robin D. Laws&#8217; livejournal have started fuzzing up my brain. The US has an electoral college system, wherein each state can cast a certain number of votes in the Presidential election, from 3 to 20-something (I think). However, each state is run as a mini-election &#8211; and in almost all states, the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=143\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Electoral College Hurts My Brain<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8D9ZE-2j","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}