Reworking the Electoral College might not change the results.
What if we used Wyoming as that baseline and made every electoral vote equal to 193,000 people? There would be a few impacts.First, there would be about 1699 electoral votes in play, using 2018 population estimates.Under this scenario, the power of the biggest states would grow. California, Texas and Florida would all have a bigger share of the electoral vote total. To a lesser extent, the power would also grow for states such as New York, Pennsylvania, Georgia, North Carolina and Ohio.
But, of course, she didn’t. Even a more representative electoral vote from California wouldn’t have saved her. And that brings us back to the most basic element of the Electoral College. Love it or hate it, in a world of 51 separate elections, the outcome in a few battleground states is always going to determine the winner.Dante Chinni is a contributor to NBC News specializing in data analysis around campaigns, politics and culture. He is director of the
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