Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency
by geoffpado on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @06:04AM
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Each state gets a number of electors equal to their Congressional delegation: Representatives *and* Senators. So the overweighting of small states in the Senate does, to a smaller degree, affect the Electoral College as well (as every state gets two "free" electors).
Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency
by iainmerrick on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @06:25AM
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Good point! I overlooked that. On the other hand, the larger states having large bloc votes plays in their favor.
There are two senators per state regardless of population, so low-population rural states have an outsized influence in the Senate.
In the electoral college, each state is weighted by population. It’s unavoidably biased (just by the nature of chunking votes into seats and states) but it doesn’t consistently favor either side.