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Title: The Disenfranchisement of Rural America
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URL Source: http://www.hoover.org/publications/defining-ideas/article/140451
Published: Feb 14, 2013
Author: James Huffman
Post Date: 2013-02-14 11:26:03 by farmfriend
Keywords: None
Views: 392
Comments: 29

The Disenfranchisement of Rural America

by James Huffman (member of the Property Rights, Freedom, and Prosperity Task Force)

Anyone who pays even passing attention to American politics is familiar with the map (Figure 1) of the United States showing states in which a majority of voters favored President Obama (colored blue) and those where Romney garnered the most votes (in red). This map conveys three dominant messages: first, that states can be meaningfully described as either red or blue; second, that the West Coast, the upper Midwest, and the Northeast are solidly blue, and the rest of the country is mostly red; and third, that, geographically speaking, more of the country is red than blue.

Those concerned about how Romney lost in what appears to be a mostly red country should refer themselves to Figure 2, in which the states are distorted to reflect their populations. More populous states have more votes in the Electoral College than do sparsely populated states. The Disenfranchisement of Rural America by James Huffman Figure 2

But a third map (Figure 3) showing the nation’s 3,035 counties in the same color scheme reveals that portraying states as either blue or red obscures much of what we might want to know about the states and the voters who inhabit them. On this map, we see that most of the blue states are in fact mostly red. The reality of vast expanses of red in some of the bluest of states should concern us if we truly care about self-governance.

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#4. To: farmfriend (#0) (Edited)

From the article:

Although most Americans seem to accept the significant deviation from majority rule represented by the Senate, many are less tolerant of the far less counter- majoritarian system for electing the president. With each presidential election comes hand-wringing over the possibility that the candidate who loses the popular vote might prevail in the Electoral College and become president. For Americans imbued in the one person/one vote principle on which the United States Supreme Court based its mandates for state legislative reapportionment a half century ago, the prospect of this outcome is unacceptable. It is long past time, they argue, to abandon the antiquated Electoral College in favor of direct election of the president.

OK, when is the last time a President was elected who won the popular vote, but lost the electoral college?

Found this online at: http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/thepoliticalsystem/a/electcollege_2.htm

Has a presidential candidate ever lost the nationwide popular vote but been elected president in the Electoral College? Yes, three times:

•In 1876 there were a total of 369 electoral votes available with 185 needed to win. Republican Rutherford B. Hayes, with 4,036,298 popular votes won 185 electoral votes. His main opponent, Democrat Samuel J. Tilden, won the popular vote with 4,300,590 votes, but won only 184 electoral votes. Hayes was elected president.

•In 1888 there were a total of 401 electoral votes available with 201 needed to win. Republican Benjamin Harrison, with 5,439,853 popular votes won 233 electoral votes. His main opponent, Democrat Grover Cleveland, won the popular vote with 5,540,309 votes, but won only 168 electoral votes. Harrison was elected president.

•In 2000 there were a total of 538 electoral votes available with 270 needed to win. Republican George W. Bush, with 50,456,002 popular votes won 271 electoral votes. His Democratic opponent, Al Gore, won the popular vote with 50,999,897 votes, but won only 266 electoral votes. Bush was elected president. ;)

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#6. To: BTP Holdings (#4)

Of course, the vote-count has probably been fraudulent since day one.

BlackBoxVoting.org has proved it's even worse today.

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#7. To: Lod (#6)

Of course, the vote-count has probably been fraudulent since day one.

BlackBoxVoting.org has proved it's even worse today.

The states with those Black Boxes, such as Illinois, have the worst vote records that they can show for any election. ;)

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