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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThere are 35 American states with less than 7 million people.
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Jeet Heer
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A reminder: the votes are still being counted but Joe Biden is on track to win the popular vote by 7 million votes. There are 35 American states with less than 7 million people.
11:49 PM · Nov 19, 2020
Jeet Heer
@HeerJeet
A reminder: the votes are still being counted but Joe Biden is on track to win the popular vote by 7 million votes. There are 35 American states with less than 7 million people.
11:49 PM · Nov 19, 2020
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There are 35 American states with less than 7 million people. (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Nov 2020
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DFW
(59,875 posts)1. I used to think we Americans Abroad were 6 million
I got corrected. We are NINE million strong, six million was just the number who vote. If we were a State, we would rank somewhere in the top third in population, and our electoral votes would matter plenty.
PSPS
(15,262 posts)2. Yet they get a vote of equal value to the other far more populous states in the Senate.
Institutional minority rule.
Skittles
(170,191 posts)3. the Electoral College is just a lot of nonsense now
it has LONG outlived its purpose and is now working against the best interests of America
