Electoral College

Electoral college gives power to smaller states and large primate cities: 

• In the 2000 election a candidate, George W. Bush, became the president by winning a lot of small and medium states 
• the electoral college system gives a bonus to the small states. no matter how few people a state has, it gets two extra electoral votes according to its senators, therefore it is not proportional to population size of the state. 
• bush won the majority of the small/ medium states and only won 3 of the bigger states ohio, florida, and texas. While Gore won the majority of large electoral states such as california, New York, pennsylvania, and illinois. these states alone earned him half of the electoral votes he needed to win, but because Bush had the support of the smaller states the power shifted and Gore lost the election
• in 2000, Wyoming only had a vote turnout of 213000 but still got 3 electoral votes, while in California, nearly 11 million people voted...more than 50 times greater turnout than wyoming. But California (Gore), got 54 votes which is only 18 times as many as wyoming
• During the course of the 2012 election Romney v. Obama, primate cities controlled the voting patterns in various states, leaving little to no power for the rest of the state. 
• in 2012, obama only won Washoe and Clark county out of the 17 counties in Nevada and still won the state. This shows that the primate city of the state, Las Vegas, which is located in Clark county is essentially the only city of the state that matters. ~700,000 of the total ~900,000 voters are located in clark county this is more than 2/3 of the votes in large thanks to Las Vegas.
• in Maryland, obama won 10 electoral votes by winning the state. however, he only won a few counties but won baltimore city and baltimore county giving him ~400,000 votes of his 1.5 million...thats about 1/3 of his total in one location
• in 2012, obama won only 12 counties in the state of pennsylvania, yet he got 52% of the votes because he won the 2 major cities and the counties they fall in, philly and pittsburgh 
• The electoral college gives disproportionate voting power to states, favoring the smaller states with more electoral votes per person
• small states have the power!