Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz suspends 2020 bid

I actually agree but there is a legitimate argument for the EC which has been my point all along.

If you give California 90% of the population, it will decide who is POTUS without a doubt. That means the POTUS will be dealing with Californians and toying around with the rest of the population. No need to campaign anywhere else, or worry about anyone else's issues. It is a California country, everyone else can piss off.

You can argue for or against this, but the fact is power is going to balance itself somehow, and the current balance is achieved by that old mechanism. Try changing it, and you'll get your eyes gouged out by the small population states because they want the POTUS accountable to them, not just one or two states.

There is no way to resolve this, because the root of this issue is power, and power is usually established by force/war. You'll never talk Idaho into handing over their voting power to California. Talk all you want about national popular vote logic, and they'll eventually point a shotgun at your face.

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