CA is a gift. 55 electoral votes for Dems. If we split up the votes, there is a significant enough amt of Republican presence to give at least 20 ECs to the Repubs. No thanks, I'd rather give all the ECs to Dems.
splitting states in any blue states hurts us. It ain't gonna happen... and if it did.....we are talking about Deep Sticky Doo-Doo for the Democrats from that point out.
It could only hurt. The Republicans would pick up far more from California and New York than the Democrats would ever gain from Idaho and Wyoming, etc.
People who are opposed to the electoral college as anti-democratic should give this some serious thought. The electoral is a check against precisely the sort of publicly supported tyranny we are seeing now. If the popular whim of the moment - as whipped up by fear-mongering demagogues - is allowed unbridled power, tyranny will inevitably be the result.
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