James Fallows
The new and improved electoral college map
Three years ago I mentioned a project Neil Freeman, an artist and urban planner in New York, had worked out to fix the Electoral College system. He divided the U.S. into 50 jurisdictions of more-or-less equal population, tried to keep them geographically contiguous and culturally coherent, and came up with this result…
Now the 2010 Census results are in, and Freeman is back with a new, improved, and way spiffier (plus anthropologically/geographically informed) Electoral Reform Map. You can get more details at his site, but this will give you the idea:
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If the goal is to throw out the federal system entirely, as this map does, why bother with the electoral college at all?
malclave on February 15, 2013 at 8:26 PM
How stupid.
VorDaj on February 15, 2013 at 8:51 PM
I wonder how the 2012 election would have turned out utilizing this map. The Electoral College would still retain the discrete relationship of the States. Reducing the influence of New England which has become a corrupt left wing slop-hole is in itself, very appealing.
FirelandsO3 on February 15, 2013 at 9:28 PM
Not to derail the thread, but does the 2010 Census count Hispanics as whites, or was JFKY making that up as well?
MelonCollie on February 15, 2013 at 9:40 PM
So, the idea is to destroy the States, so as to make the Federal Hegemon better?
Never.
Jimmy Doolittle on February 16, 2013 at 3:08 AM