In the wake of President Obama’s re-election Tuesday night,
Republican strategists have requested a change in the electoral college system,
awarding electoral college votes based upon square mileage, rather than
population size. This comes from the area maps of many states, which show large
red areas pervasively throughout, even within so-called blue states, where
these teensy little areas of blue get to win the state for Democrats just
because a majority of the state’s population lives in these areas. Republican
strategists contend that high-density population areas offer voters no chance
to think for themselves, creating groupthink, and claim it’s only in wide-open
expanses of land where people can think freely and make the right decision
regarding who to vote for.
So I guess it’ll be up to the Supreme Court to decide this
one. And if you think they’ll do the right thing: think again! Remember Bush v.
Gore, and the Eminent Domain decision? (Hey, at least they got the parody
decision right in Flynt v. Falwell!)
