The Electoral College

This is my first non-food post in a while. I have to start with I want Donald Trump (call me crazy) to win the November election. I think that he is the only one who will actually change anything in this country. Hillary is just mini-Obama and I don't think Johnson will have enough power or support to even win the election. 

When the electoral college was established, America looked a lot different. The largest colony had almost 500,000 people (Virginia), while the smallest only had just over 23,000 people (Georgia). There are still very large population disparities among the states, but everyone can now vote. When the Constitution was written, only white, male landowners could vote.  That was only 6% of the population. Currently, 68% of the population is eligible to vote (not saying that all of them do, but that's for a different post). 


The electoral college was intended to give more power to the smaller states, with smaller populations of white, male landowners, which was successful. That was more than two hundred years ago. The electoral college is now outdated and instead of giving power to the smaller states, it limits it. I live in New Mexico, where a general sediment is: why vote? The state's electoral votes won't matter anyway and the state is mostly liberal so the votes will go to the liberals anyway. 

Additionally, the electoral college creates a very two party country. Forty-eight states have a winner-takes-all method of the electoral college, which makes it almost impossible for a third party candidate without the publicity of a more popular party to even win a state. 

I meant to write about Donald Trump's economic policies today, but that just didn't happen. I hope you liked what I had to say on the electoral college and I'll see if I have time to do Trump's economic policy before his speech in Ohio tonight. 

I would love to hear you're feedback so either comment or email me if you have anything to say.