Let's take Wyoming
Nov. 1st, 2022 10:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
boxofdelightsIn Allow Me To Retort: A Black Guy's Guide to the Constitution, Elie Mystal quotes Cardozo School of Law professor Kyron Huigens:
Kyron Huigens, "The Electoral College Is Actually Worse Than You Think—Here's Why," Observer, February 27, 2019.
Wyoming has 584,309 inhabitants, two senators, and three electoral college votes. Mystal suggests that buying 500,000 Black people a townhouse in Wyoming would be a more effective way for some billionaire to defend democracy than a futile Presidential run. And it doesn't have to be 500,000: 278,503 people turned out to vote in Wyoming in 2020. And some of them voted for Democrats! 120,069 more Democratic votes would have sent Wyoming's electoral votes to Biden/Harris, and elected Lynnette Grey Bull instead of Lynne Cheney. In 2018, 74984 more votes could have elected a Democratic senator from Wyoming.
The Inflation Reduction Act will invest $369 billion in "energy security and climate change". Can we send some of that money to Wyoming? People who work in clean energy and climate change tend to vote Democratic. Also, creating a lot of high-paying jobs will make the whole community more prosperous.
I'm looking at the Californication of Colorado here, that turned Colorado blue, and thinking that Wyoming is the logical next step for Californians who are being evicted by climate change. If there were jobs in Wyoming, I bet they'd go there. What do you think?
The reason the popular vote diverges from the Electoral College vote is that each voter in Wyoming has more voting power in the Senate—and so in the Electoral College—than each voter in California.
Here is the proper calculation…. If Carol [resident of California] has one vote in the Senate, how many does Will [resident of Wyoming] have?
Fifty-seven.
Kyron Huigens, "The Electoral College Is Actually Worse Than You Think—Here's Why," Observer, February 27, 2019.
Wyoming has 584,309 inhabitants, two senators, and three electoral college votes. Mystal suggests that buying 500,000 Black people a townhouse in Wyoming would be a more effective way for some billionaire to defend democracy than a futile Presidential run. And it doesn't have to be 500,000: 278,503 people turned out to vote in Wyoming in 2020. And some of them voted for Democrats! 120,069 more Democratic votes would have sent Wyoming's electoral votes to Biden/Harris, and elected Lynnette Grey Bull instead of Lynne Cheney. In 2018, 74984 more votes could have elected a Democratic senator from Wyoming.
The Inflation Reduction Act will invest $369 billion in "energy security and climate change". Can we send some of that money to Wyoming? People who work in clean energy and climate change tend to vote Democratic. Also, creating a lot of high-paying jobs will make the whole community more prosperous.
I'm looking at the Californication of Colorado here, that turned Colorado blue, and thinking that Wyoming is the logical next step for Californians who are being evicted by climate change. If there were jobs in Wyoming, I bet they'd go there. What do you think?