So, there is a huge payday if you win 51%+ of the vote, and no benefit if you don’t. Basically, whichever candidate wins the majority of the popular vote, gets all the electoral college votes. What I am not okay with is the silly winner-takes-all system that most states use. Another good explanation with an Economist video here.
The less populated states (e.g., DE or WY) have 3 electoral votes because the framers of the Constitution wanted even small states to have more political sway. As you can see in the map below, Texas has 38 votes and Florida has 29. The 4,600 word US Constitution has worked well over the last 200 years, but let’s also admit there are structural problems with US politics too.īig problem #1: The “winner-takes-all” electoral system: As background for the non-Americans, the US has an indirect Presidential election system where each state has a number of electoral votes. The US is a robust democracy with a craftily designed system of government checks and balances. US elections are exhausting.ĭon’t get me wrong.
In the graph, you can see that political TV spend is about $2 billion a year (even during the 2010 mid-term Congressional elections).
Which means we will see lots of TV ads and general non-sense in the news until November. In the US, it is a Presidential election year.
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