LOL-ain't over

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by SCUDSBROTHER

WOW!! What an f'd up system the Texas Democratic Party has going on.Are you kid'n me? 1/3 of the delegates are given out in the caucus(which looks like a disaster.)The other 2/3 of the delegates are given out by voting in private.Hillary won that by about 100 thousand votes.Now wait,they don't give out delegates by the amount of votes statewide.They give out delegates by the district,and Democratic stronghold areas are given more delegates than the more rural Republican dominated districts.How about we just count up peoples votes.Same as in the National Election in November.Forget the damn state your in.Just add up each Americans vote.Period.For a country that claims be to "fair" and just.We just aren't.If your a Democrat living out in the Texas countryside,evidently your vote in the primary doesn't count as much in the primary as some Democrat from an inner city Dallas district.Then,that same Democrat out in the Texas Countryside really doesn't have any reason to vote in November,because this is a red state.Someday,this crap has to be looked at.Just because you're a voting minority in a state,shouldn't make your vote useless in a presidential election.This is the case for Democrats in Texas,and Republicans in New York etc.

the electoral college was put in place so that smaller, less populated states would have as much say in the election as the larger states. i don't see that system going away any time soon.