Twitter and Facebook's action over Joe Biden article reignites bias claims

Re:Twitter and Facebook's action over Joe Biden article reig... by TedDoesntTalk on Thursday October 15, 2020 @08:03PM (#24795879)

If you are in favor of the popular vote movement, how do you reconcile that for residents of sparsely populated states like Wyoming? Why would such residents bother to vote at all under the popular vote? (I would not)

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Re:Twitter and Facebook's action over Joe Biden article reig... by heurist on Thursday October 15, 2020 @08:33PM (#24796084)

Parties would realign to more evenly split the electorate. Wyoming would still count.

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Re:Twitter and Facebook's action over Joe Biden article reig... by TedDoesntTalk on Thursday October 15, 2020 @09:50PM (#24796576)

Can you explain that? I do not understand.

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Re:Twitter and Facebook's action over Joe Biden article reig... by vharuck on Thursday October 15, 2020 @11:25PM (#24797133)

A packed stadium rally in Pennsylvania would have about the same number of attendees as a packed stadium rally in Wyoming or Rhode Island. You couldn't just rely on predictable "safe states" won by voters going straight-party on ballots. As it is, there's barely any reason for a Democratic presidential nominee to show up in reliability red states, let alone offer them anything in a platform.

Switching to a popular vote could lessen the current extremism.

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Re:Twitter and Facebook's action over Joe Biden article reig... by TedDoesntTalk on Saturday October 17, 2020 @03:23PM (#24812446)

> A packed stadium rally in Pennsylvania would have about the same number of attendees as a packed stadium rally in Wyoming or Rhode Island.

That’s absolutely ridiculous. Apparently you’ve never been to Wyoming, population 550,000. Pennsylvania has 12.8 million.

Thank you for affirming my belief that a popular vote system is just as ridiculous for America.

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