Electoral College what it means to the little guy

We've all seen the maps, Blue or Red and sometimes we may feel like we are in the wrong state by the color on a map. Recently a good friend of mine sent me this website http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/2008/ the writer displays the popular votes in Cartograms reflecting how the states are more favorably weighted based on Demographics. He makes a lot of great points about the weighting of states and does his best to show the bias of the polls reflected in his Cartograms.

Obviously the electoral is supposed to provide an equal playing field to the country. It might be simpler to go with the popular vote, of course that was the argument back when Gore lost out to the electoral in 2000, but the electorates are set up by politicians to help ensure incumbenancy IMO (In My Opinion). Here is the county map from this website that shows the voting from Mark Newman's Blog.



Now here is a map of what the population demographic looks like at night.



So I overlayed them so you can get a view of what the world really looks like.



California Has 55 Electoral Votes and a population of 36,457,549.

Idaho for example has 5 Electoral Votes (10% of CA) and a population of 1,293,953. (Only 3.5% of CA's population). This rather gives Idaho a greater impact in the Electoral that California based purely on the % of population in the state.

Now that's a different look on the same information, be carefull what you read, investigate before making decisions.