Hillary Rodham Clinton ...

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

180. "Trumpian talking points"?

Excuse me; no. The absurdly unfair Electoral College system, not me and not Trump, gets to say which states "count" more than others. Under the system as it exists now, California gets 55 electoral votes, far fewer than its population should warrant. If we use the least populous state, Wyoming (pop. about 500,000), as a baseline and give it 1 vote, California should get 78 votes, not 55. New York would get 40 instead of 29. Pennsylvania would get the same 20 it has now; Wisconsin would get 1 more; and Michigan would get 20 instead of 16. If the EC apportioned votes directly in accordance with states' populations Clinton would have won. But it doesn't. Instead, it gives states the same number of votes as the total of their senators and representatives. The result is that small states have more weight in the EC than large ones, since each state gets 2 senators and at least 1 representative regardless of population. The number of representatives each state has should be based on its population, but here's the catch: in 1929, Congress, controlled in both houses by Republicans, passed the Reapportionment Act of 1929, which capped the size of the House at 435 (the then current number). This cap has remained unchanged ever since even though it no longer accurately reflects huge population growth, especially in urban areas.

Those are the rules. They suck. I didn't make them.