{"id":2455661,"date":"2020-03-11T20:48:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T02:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/electoral-college-math\/"},"modified":"2020-03-12T08:58:20","modified_gmt":"2020-03-12T14:58:20","slug":"electoral-college-math","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/electoral-college-math\/","title":{"rendered":"Electoral College math"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/02\/facebook-thumbnail-1200.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Fred Stewart, in his letter of March 8, 2020, in the Aspen Daily News, concludes that \u201cdensely populated cities \u2026 should not speak for the rest of the country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Well, Fred, they obviously do not since Trump won without those cities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Fred\u2019s confused assessment of counties was just that \u2014 confusing as to his point.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The implications is that if one counted by counties, instead of states, then all would be well and more balanced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">However, here in the West we have counties larger than entire small states \u2014 but those counties may have a population only in the dozens, or less.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Does Fred suggest that this would provide a more equitable distribution of voter preference?<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The wisdom of the Founding fathers, and the Electoral College, is that the states elect the president, and they do it voting on a proportionate basis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">That proportion is assigned by population distribution.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Indeed, that is why a president can be elected without the majority of the popular national vote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">But it also ensures that smaller states, with less population, have a voice and command attention to their particular issues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The Founding Fathers were apparently better at math.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Name\">James DeFrancia<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Title\">Basalt<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/electoral-college-math\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fred Stewart, in his letter of March 8, 2020, in the Aspen Daily News, concludes that \u201cdensely populated cities \u2026 should not speak for the rest of the country.\u201d Well, Fred, they obviously do not since Trump won without those cities. Fred\u2019s confused assessment of counties was just that \u2014 confusing as to his point. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2455661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-18 11:16:35","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2455661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2455661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2455661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2455682,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2455661\/revisions\/2455682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2455661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2455661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2455661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}