I was looking at some stuff and discovered that the majority of the black population in the united states (that typicaly votes democrat) is centralised in the south primarily in states that always go republican. so due to the electoral college the black vote for the most part ends up not counting.
here is a population map for blacks: censusscope.org/us/map_nhblack.html
and you can look up a typical electoral college map thingy yourself…
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The black vote doesn’t count…
The Latino vote doesn’t count…
The environmentalists’ vote doesn’t count…
The womens vote doesn’t count…
The Asian vote doesn’t count…
The Jewish vote doesn’t count…
The youth vote doesn’t count…
The low-income families’ vote doesn’t count…
The veterans’ vote doesn’t count…
The union members’ vote doesn’t count…
The LGBT vote doesn’t count…
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Hell, by he time you add-up all the votes that don’t count - REPUBLICANS WIN! - AGAIN!
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[size=200]YES![/size]
[size=200]WHOA! WE WON![/size]
[size=150] Wa-what? [/size][size=70]…We lost?[/size]
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edited to add some groups onto the list > I was on a roll
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yeah but luckily local elections can work in their favor sometimes
IOW in local elections their votes would count. So it’s not like the unfair imbalance on the national level is countered by a favorable unfair weight to their votes on the local level. On the local level, without the electoral college idiocy, their votes count fairly - as do the votes of whites. On the national level, they do not count as they should. A net loss.
What are y’all talking about? Does voting now separate out all non-Caucasion votes in order to give some sort of advantage to one ‘race’ (identified only by their skin color) over another?
Oh, my lord. I thought we’d come a lot farther than that!
Talking about it in terms of “fair” and “unfair” incorrectly, I think, implies that it’s being done deliberately. As if it’s some plot by republicans or the white status-quo to move into states with large black populations and out-vote them so that their vote doesn’t count.
The fact that the presidential election isn’t won by popular vote is kinda weird, I agree. Is it a plot to silence black people? I doubt it.
Is that like a modern version of the three-fifths compromise, similar to the new Jim Crow voter suppression tactics?
Did you not see how the majority of blacks live in states that primarily go against there typical vote?