eau de sauvage wrote on 05/07/20 at 18:13:35:




Yea I'm pretty sure he wanted a congressional district level splitting of "seats" like in India.
If 10 million people in NYC vote for Hilary, she gets the 1 seat allocated to that region. If 500 people of podunkville county in montana vote for Trump, he gets that. They don't even count popular vote except as an after thought.
The party with the most seats takes office. Not one where each state is winner take all. That causes the city and apartment and tenement block dwellers to run roughshod over the "land" a little more. But an outright all popular vote count is the worst. Combine that with the lop sided nominating contests like Iowa caucus and what not, and its a true disaster. Atleast the electoral college method is a shade better than that.

One weird thing is, India has no nomination crap. The party leadership hands out the "ticket" at each lower district and whatever level. Its almost those same smoky back room deal, who ever pulls off the biggest publicity stunt gets the ticket. Every level is done the same way. No nomination at all. Nominations are better in the US style, as is debates and whatever that does. It makes politicians answerable to the public, not just other politicians.

Cool.
Srinath.