15 states are trying to make the electoral college obselete

Re:15 states are trying to make the electoral college obselete by input_sh on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @05:47PM (#20762186)

> when the majority of Americans (and I believe the world in general now) live an urban life.

I think you're underestimating the figures. 80.7% of Americans lived in urban areas according to the 2010 census. Estimates for the entire world are over 50% for over a decade now (since 2007, to be more accurate). It increases slowly but steadily, so we were at about 55.27% in 2018. It's going to be about 68% by 2050 and about 85% by 2100.

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Re:15 states are trying to make the electoral college obselete by jdminhbg on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @08:03PM (#20763291)

The Census's definition of "urban area" doesn't quite match what most people think of, I don't think. It's any area of over 50k people. If you reverse sort the list provided on Wikipedia[0], you'll find a lot of places that aren't top of mind when people think about "urban life:" Grand Island, NE; Hazleton, PA; Albany, OR.

Edit: I'm not disputing the larger point. I just think the number is probably a little lower than that if you adjusted for being "truly" urban.

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Re:15 states are trying to make the electoral college obselete by input_sh on Thursday August 22, 2019 @03:02AM (#20765391)

Yeah, I was thinking about adding that there's some talk about what constitutes as "urban area", but thought it wasn't relevant enough for the context of my comment.

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Re:15 states are trying to make the electoral college obselete by MadWombat on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @05:58PM (#20762291)

"It's going to be about 68% by 2050 and about 85% by 2100"

If the trend doesn't change for the next 80 years. Which is a big if.

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