Very interesting, Julie. It looks like unilateral disarmament by small states. It is hard enough for us to influence presidential elections as it is. Why would we give up the significant subsidy that including senators in the elector count gives us? We have 8 CDs, add two senators gives us a 25% boost. Montana has 1 CD, it gets a 200% boost from the senators! If Cal. has 55 CDs, the senators only add 4%. It's a pitiful bulwark against domination of one state by another, but we have so few. I suppose the senate, which exercises huge power with no regard to the relative proportionality of state populations, offends the principle of numerical equality for more on a daily basis than the quadrennial election of the president by the EC, which at least combines the numbers of house reps and senators.
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