Are a states electoral votes based on population?
Back when the original 13 colonies were trying to agree on a constitution to replace the Articles of Confederation, there was a disagreement about how many votes each new state should get. The larger states wanted it based on population (the Virginia Plan) and the smaller states wanted one vote per state (the New Jersey Plan). The compromise was to give each state a fixed number of votes (2, for the number of senators) plus an additional number based on population (1 for each member of the house of representatives). It really doesn’t make as much sense now with our modern unified nation. It does mean that the less populated states, which tend to be the Red States, have a disproportionate amount of control over the electoral college. The vote of a person in Wyoming has four times as much electoral weight as my vote in California. It also means that the nearly empty states, like Montana, have as much influence to block bills in the senate as huge states like California or New York.
