Bogart, I've heard that projected out eventually the Electoral colllage system will fail because of population shifts and a real minority with the power of electing the president over a vast majority.
Regardless of what happens to our water supplies and state populations, it'd be hard to imagine a
realistic scenerio where that happens.
A way the Electoral College could fail is if a small handful of states that often vote together ever got more than 50% of the electoral votes. Something like CA being worth 150 and NY worth 120. In that case, winning CA and NY would mean winning the election, regardless of how the rest of the country voted. But since NY lost EV's the last time around, i don't see that as being very likely.
Of course, those states would have to have a sizeable majority of the nation's population in order to have that many EV's in the first place, since they get only 4 of the 100 "senate" votes.
Or a more ridiculous extreme, if CA became worth 270 electoral votes, whoever won that state would win the election :lol: Again, that's not likely at all... and if it ever did happen, they'd probably want to divide the state into a few smaller states.
