Popular Vote vs Electoral College

 Joe Biden has received over 6,000,000 more votes than Donald Trump.  He is projected to earn 306 electoral votes to Trump’s 232.  That’s 72 more electoral votes.  That’s over 25 percent more votes.  The founding fathers of our country set up the electoral college to select our president because they did not think the common man could be trusted to select our leader.  The southern states would not join the union unless the government counted enslaved people in the population to select these electoral votes.  Each enslaved human was counted 3/5’s a person giving the southern states more population.  If the President was chosen by popular vote we would not have had a Republican President since the elder President Bush.  If the electoral college was done away with today, it was be extremely difficult for any Republican to win again.  

I wanted to visualize how many more people voted for Joe Biden.  If people stand side by side and clasp hands, each will cover about 5 feet of space.  I had Fleta figure this for me.  I’m a good math student, but not a math whiz like my sister.  Six million people divided by 1056 people per mile gives 5681 miles of people. Goggle says it is 2800 miles across the USA from coast to coast.  Guess what, 2800 times 2 equals 5600.  So, the 6,000,000 Biden voters standing side by side would reach coast to coast twice.

The 80,000,000  Biden voters lined up side by side would reach across the country 27 times. The 74,000,000 Trump voters lined up side by side would reach across the country 25 times.

This shows the vastness of the voters who preferred Joe Biden over Trump.  I am one of those voters.