OK, but why do some Democrats still defend it?
Paul LePage Says National Popular Vote Will Silence White People
Speaking to the hosts of the WVOM morning show this week, former Governor Paul LePage lambasted a bill being considered by Maine’s legislature to join with other states to essentially bypass the Electoral College and ensure that the President is elected by the national popular vote.
“Actually what would happen if they do what they say they’re gonna do is white people will not have anything to say. It’s only going to be the minorities that would elect. It would be California, Texas, Florida,” said LePage.
The former governor, calling into the show from his home in Florida, also labeled the proposal “an insane process” and warned that “we’re gonna be forgotten people.”
The proposal would actually, if adopted by a sufficient number of states, ensure that every voter, regardless of race, has the same say in electing the president.
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Commenters on Twitter after LePage’s remarks were shared on Wednesday noted that while he’s wrong about the particulars, race is an instructive lens through which to view the current presidential electoral system.
The power of white voters is significantly magnified by the Electoral College, which itself is a product of the nation’s history of slavery.
And it is magnified much, much more in the senate in which a state with fewer than 600,000 people, 93% whites, has the same number of senators as a state with 40 million people, some 27% nonwhite (10.8 million) among whom are 2.6 million blacks.
Some Democrats to this day resist the idea that representation in the senate should be proportionate to population, like representation in the house, as both Madison and Hamilton desired.
Why?
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