This is completely correct. If nobody gets the 270 majority of electoral votes then the house of representative delegation for each each gets 1 vote for the president. Interestingly enough the Senate elects the Vice President by the same method if this were to happen. The constitution was created with strong protections for state rights and equal treatment so it doesn’t surprise me that each state would get an equal vote in process. We really haven’t changed much about the system in the past 100+ years.
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I don’t see how counting the votes of 40 million people of one state the same as the votes of 600,000 people of another state is protecting “state rights.”
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I could certainly see the possibility of this happening with a Bloomberg/Sanders/Trump election. Bloomberg and Sanders split the various blue states and Trump taking most of the Red States. Of course in that scenario Trump might actually win pluralities in some solidly blue states. Take a state like CA. Republicans usually take about 35-40% of the vote here but if democrats split equally between Sanders and Bloomberg here you could end up with Trump wining a plurality. I have no idea how something like that might split out. [/quote]
I see Bloomberg taking as many votes from Trump as from Sanders. A lot of republicans are relatively sane, and think Trump would be a disaster.
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We live under a constitutional republic. It was specifically designed this way so that majorities couldn’t repress minorities.
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Giving a state with 40 million people more of a vote than a state with 600,000 is not repressing minorities.
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…it would be next impossible for someone to massively win the popular vote and fail to get 50% of the electoral college.[/quote]
I’m not sure what you mean by massively (nor am I sure why you seem to imply that it’s not important what happens when a candidate wins by a solid but not massive margin), but it would be very easy to win the popular vote in a 3-candidate race by a solid margin and fail to get 50% of the electoral college.
To have congressmen choose a president is really bad. To have them choose a president in a way that a Wyomingan’s vote essentially counts 65 times as much as a Californian’s is a travesty of democracy.
