Truthfully the Electoral College (EC) makes no real sense and I’ve never heard a reasonable explanation of why we should keep it (other than it’s in the Constitution. The other is “But then California will always decide the vote...which is weird. I don’t think California by itself has the 80 million votes needed to elect a modern president. And still, last I checked, a vote in one state should be the same as a vote in any other state.)
But we seem stuck with it for the near future, if not longer.
So if the EC is stupid and crazy (and it is), well I say we fight back with stupid and crazy. And with the very weapon that the Republicans seem to love and worship...MONEY.
We need to get 250,000 New Yorkers to buy land in North Dakota and 250,000 Californians to buy land in South Dakota. Then they list that land as their main residence (heck, put up a “tuff shed” and a mailbox). California and New York can lose that many Democratic voters easy and still run true blue. But both North and South Dakota, with their small populations, would easily changed from “Always Red” so no politicians travel there, to Always Blue, where no politicians travel there.
And this then shows just how stupid the concept of the electoral college truly is.
Land doesn’t vote, People Vote...and now (as opposed to in 1776) people can live in multiple places and vote in a state while being across the country, or across the world, easily.
And while these two states are only 6 EC votes total; that would be an easy 12 point shift from red to blue. And as we see today, 12 EC votes can be a huge “f”ing deal.
Heck Bloomberg could buy the land all by himself and gift it to loyal dems from safe states and boom, 12 easy EC votes for the good guys. His 100 million spent this way would have made more of an impact than 100 million in Florida.
And it can be done efficiently: Don’t have people in even mildly tight districts involved. Pick people from crazy dense blue areas so as not to mess with lower down votes.
And then all those people who post, “But then California always will pick the President,” can change that to, “Damn, stupid North and South Dakota went Blue again. They always get to pick the President!”
Because no matter how much we correctly argue that it’s “The People That Vote”, not the land they live on; the EC doesn’t follow this. Luckily in this day and age we can put “The People That Vote” on the “Land” that seems to matter (while letting them still live where they want).
So live in Cali, or NYC, or the Windy City, or Seattle, but have your little slice of ND or SC to call “home” and vote vote vote.