Commentary
A CalMatters article this week reported “California stuck in Dem-GOP binary.” But it didn’t explain why. I will here. There are three major reasons, in order of importance.
First, there is the much-derided Electoral College. Democrats like to attack it because it’s not “democratic,” giving added weight to small states, as does the U.S. Senate. Each state gets electoral votes based on congressional representation: two for each Senator plus one for each representative.
In the 2020 U.S. Census, California’s population was 39,613,493. Wyoming’s was 581,075, or 1.5 percent of the Golden State’s.
In the 2024 election, California will get 54 electoral votes. But Wyoming will get three, or 5.6 percent of California’s total….