tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7458724113457799001.post2165237629025904714..comments2024-03-09T16:22:54.461-05:00Comments on <a href="http://www.dancirucci.com">Dan Cirucci</a>: THIS Is Why We Have An Electoral College, OK?Dan Ciruccihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18362893049097966904noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7458724113457799001.post-9492904580495110902018-07-31T21:21:04.932-04:002018-07-31T21:21:04.932-04:00The population of the top five cities (New York, L...The population of the top five cities (New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston and Philadelphia) is only 6% of the population of the United States.<br /><br />Voters in the biggest cities in the US are almost exactly balanced out by rural areas in terms of population and partisan composition.<br /><br />16% of the U.S. population lives outside the nation's Metropolitan Statistical Areas. Rural America has voted 60% Republican. None of the 10 most rural states matter now.<br /><br />16% of the U.S. population lives in the top 100 cities. They voted 63% Democratic in 2004. <br /> <br />The rest of the U.S., in suburbs, divide almost exactly equally between Republicans and Democrats.<br />totohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12247335901450384827noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7458724113457799001.post-11472257853640250662018-07-31T21:19:56.026-04:002018-07-31T21:19:56.026-04:00Clinton won 487 counties nationwide, compared with...Clinton won 487 counties nationwide, compared with 2,626 for President-elect Donald Trump.<br /><br />In 2012, under the current state-by-state winner-take-all system (not mentioned in the U.S. Constitution, but later enacted by 48 states), voters in just 60 counties and DC could have elected the president in 2012 – even though they represented just 26.3% of voters.<br /><br />The Founders did not mention "counties" in the Constitution as the basis for electoral victory<br /><br />"The reality is: Given our Electoral College and our current politics, national elections are decided in this country in a few precincts, in a few key swing states," former DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson <br />The current secretary of DHS, Kirstjen Nielsen, echoed those comments– 3/21/18<br /><br />According to Tony Fabrizio, pollster for the Trump campaign, the president’s narrow victory was due to four counties in Florida and one in Michigan.<br /><br />totohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12247335901450384827noreply@blogger.com