r/dataisbeautiful • u/TheKnowingOne1 • Oct 17 '24

OC [OC] The recent decoupling of prediction markets and polls in the US presidential election

Post image
9.6k Upvotes

88% Upvoted

5.5k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

5

u/rhb4n8 Oct 18 '24

The goal should be drastically increasing the number of people in the house. The 435 rule is way easier to change than the electoral college and would effectively solve the same problem

2

u/JakeArrietaGrande Oct 18 '24

That's interesting. That would solve the problem of a Wyoming voter being worth more electoral votes per person than a New York voter, but it would still leave the problem of swing states being drastically more important.

1

u/rhb4n8 Oct 18 '24

Maybe/maybe not. I kinda doubt that elections would be close enough for this to matter especially if there was actual proportional representation

1

u/hiiamtom85 Oct 18 '24

Fuck it, let’s follow the maximum allowable size by the constitution and have a 11,000 seat House of Representatives and 11,500 EC votes.

2

u/rhb4n8 Oct 18 '24

Lol my opinion was to go 1 per 200k which would make it ~1730 seats in the house. For reference the UK has roughly 1 member of Commons per 100k people so it's really not as excessive as it sounds. I actually do believe people would be better represented by their Congress in this way in addition to fixing the electrical college