mocosoft
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Clicking anywhere on the following map produces an area of these regions that is equal to the population of New York City, Los Angeles County, Wyoming, New Jersey, Texas, Coasts:
http://www.slate.com/articles/life/culturebox/2014/10/population_map_use_our_interactive_map_to_figure_out_how_many_flyover_states.html
MrSpookywasagoodboy2
The electoral college had nothing to do with population disparity, it was to keep the uneducated masses from voting in a
MrSpookywasagoodboy2
Total idiot and it has royally backfired because they didn't do the job they where supposed to do
TheDudeanator
What percentage of the fly over land is government owned, like parks or wild life preserves etc?
mocosoft
TheCriticsWereConciseItOnlyTookFourLines
In Nevada? A huge percent. In other areas, less
FatDaddyDoobs
Is this part of an electoral college debate?
AwesomeName
Should be.
MufinMcFlufin
It always comes up every time this is reposted.
kanemano
it's the reason it exists in the first place
MrSpookywasagoodboy2
No
delpharseven
There are more than a few reasons why the EC was created but that is not one of them.
TheCriticsWereConciseItOnlyTookFourLines
Perhaps he meant the EC debate?
delpharseven
Perhaps.
tankboy
No, it's the main reason. It's to balance the power of populous states vs the less populous
delpharseven
Also remember that at the time the population disparity between states nowhere near as high as it is now. It just wasn't seen as a problem.
MrSpookywasagoodboy2
No
delpharseven
No it really isn't. The EC was for getting around the slave population problem, preventing power being concentrated centrally (eg. one 1/
tankboy
Presidential candidates couldn't get the nationwide exposure back then. Electors were chosen, at the convention they made their choice.
delpharseven
of the early ideas was to have Congress elect the president), avoiding having a permanent body that elected the president (could be 2/