@MontereyJack,
MontereyJack wrote:The EC because it is heavily weighted in favor of the lower population states and gives them outsized importance in the voting,
This weighting exists, but it is not very heavy at all.
And there is something to be said for giving low-population areas a small boost when competing against high-population areas. Think of it as electoral affirmative action.
MontereyJack wrote:but rather in local parochial interests. UYou're wrong there.
Local issues can drive voters to the polls in very large numbers. When this happens in a city in a presidential election year, the voters in that city end up casting a lot of presidential ballots.
Without the electoral college, this flood of presidential ballots could easily swamp the will of voters in other parts of the country where a local issue did not drive voters to the polls.
With the electoral college, the flood of voters only influences the electors that are assigned to that state, and the voters in other states do not have their voices drowned out because of a flood of voters turning out for some local issue in a distant city.
MontereyJack wrote:And considering that the obdurate refusal of the GOP to deal with Obama,
That's Democratic propaganda to excuse away Obama's failures as a president. The GOP tried to work with him.
MontereyJack wrote:is ap; pretty good indication that we can do the same with Trump,
I think the Democrats already tried a government shutdown and it went badly for them.