29%
California, Texas, New York, Florida, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Georgia, New Jersey, North Carolina are the eleven states with the most electoral votes in the nation. Together they have 271 electoral votes. It takes 270 electoral votes to become president. Under our current system if a candidate for President of the United States wins these elven states with just 50.1% of the vote but loses the other 39 states by a landslide the candidate becomes President. The population of those 11 states is 160,324,350. 50.1% is 81,765,418.5. The population of the rest of the nation is 121,097,556. Now those aren’t registered voters but I think you can see what I’m getting at. It is conceivable that our president could be elected receiving only 29% of the popular vote with the losing candiate receiving 61%.
Still, I fully support the use of the electoral college in selecting our president. I never did care much for mob rule.
About Larry D. Burton
I'm a 55 year old controls engineer who just likes tinkering with stuff.
Finished high school at a local institute of learning. Decided it wasn't a good time to be a healthy, physically fit 18 year old with no college experience. Entered college and started working toward a degree in animal husbandry.
1975-1976
Discoverd that I was not going to be a very good husband of animals so I left school to figure out what I might be good at. A local beverage company took pity on me and paid me to go from place to place making sure their on tap beverages were maintaining their high quality.
1976-1979
Got out of quality control and into vending. Learned about control systems and refrigeration also learned that vending machines are heavy and vending doesn't pay all that well.
In 1977 I found myself married
1979-1981
Dedicated myself to installing and maintaining commercial refrigeration equipment. Found myself on the roof of a local grocery store one night in the middle of an ice storm replacing a compressor and figured it was time to get back into school.
1981-1986
Got my but back into school at night and changed jobs to keep the mechanical and electrical systems of a local coporate hospital in working order. The job expanded to unstopping drains and burning lab samples and amputated body parts.
1986-now
Finished school and took on a job designing, installing and maintaining industrial control systems. Along the way I picked up a bunch of computer skills that became very useful connecting various industrial controllers to one another and moving the data into coporate databases. I now operate Dallas Bay Technologies, a one man shop specializing in technology solutions for industrial problems.
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