Larry’s Log

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.