![]() MORE: Check out this week's Top 100 Official Singles Chart in full ![]() One Dance, which features Wizkid and Kyla, was also the most streamed track of the week, racking up 4.33 million listens. MORE: Bryan Adams reacts to Drake edging closer to his chart record See the songs which have spent the longest at Number 1 in chart history This feat places him level with Wet Wet Wet, who notched up 15 weeks at the top with Love Is All Around in 1994, and gives him only one more week to go until he equals the longest consecutive run at the summit in chart history – the 16 weeks achieved by Bryan Adams in 1991 with (Everything I Do) I Do It For You. More states should join the National Popular Vote interstate compact to abolish this senseless anachronism.He may only want One Dance, but Drake shows no signs of vacating the dance floor as he fights off his rivals to claim a 15th straight week at Number 1. It's so obviously and egregiously unfair that even apologia for the Electoral College doesn't make sense on its own terms. There is no possible justification for any of these effects. And it directs most presidential campaign attention to the handful of states that have roughly equal numbers of Republicans and Democrats. It allows losers to win, potentially by a very large margin. It weights residents of small states much, much more heavily than those of large states. Taken together, we can see why the Electoral College is a garbage way to elect the president. Republicans in California and Democrats in Texas, meanwhile, might as well not bother to vote for president. ![]() Your vote only really counts if you live in a state with a fine partisan balance, which is why Florida, as a pivotal swing state, is never really considered underrepresented. In practical terms, of course, the huge majority of all states are effectively disenfranchised under the Electoral College. In other words, it is possible to win the Electoral College while losing the popular vote by nearly 4-1. Half of the voting-eligible population in those states adds up to 50.5 million - a mere 21.8 percent of the total voting population. Looking at the above chart starting from the bottom, this can be achieved by winning every state from Wyoming through Illinois, except New Jersey. Imagine a two-candidate election where one candidate's support is wholly concentrated in the least representative states that add up to 270 electoral votes, which he or she wins by 50 percent plus one vote, and gets no support at all in the remaining states. The theoretical maximum unfairness built into the Electoral College can be measured by looking at these small states. (If any state is being subjected to "imperialism" in this system, it's the big ones.) A Vermonter counts 2.9 times as much as a North Carolinian. The vote of a Wyoming resident counts 3.5 times as much as a Floridian. On the other hand, small states get eye-popping over-representation. Florida does as well, with about one out of 10 residents not a citizen, but even if you calculate electoral votes per total voting-age population (thus counting everyone who can't vote), Florida still comes out on top. Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Ohio get top spots due to the fact that California and Texas have huge populations of non-citizens and felons who can't vote. It turns out Florida is the most disenfranchised state under the Electoral College - and California isn't even close to the top, coming in at 9th place. The greater the number, the greater the disenfranchisement: Taking voting-eligible population and turnout estimates from the United States Elections Project, I calculated the voting-eligible population per electoral vote for each state. ![]() A careful analysis will show that California isn't even that far up the list of states treated worst by the Electoral College in 2016. But risible analysis aside, Barone's premise isn't even correct. Apparently restricting the vote is good so long as you do it to lots and lots of similar people who are close together. His argument is that since California is both the largest state and leans very strongly towards one party, it's right and proper that it is partially disenfranchised by the Electoral College. Michael Barone at the American Enterprise Institute has one candidate: to prevent an "imperial" California from imposing its will on the rest of the country. Conservatives are, naturally enough, searching feverishly for any rationale to justify Donald Trump's Electoral College victory as true, righteous, and above all What the Founders Would Have Wanted.
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