Snoopy IS a Beagle ! ?<| sep |> It ' s not about controlling states though . Let ' s say you are in State A with 10 electoral votes and it is 51 % Hillary and 49 % Trump . The way the system works right now , State A would then cast 10 electoral votes for Hillary . What if all 50 states were 5149 like that ? Does that mean Hillary gets 538 electoral votes , and Trump gets 0 ? But it goes further than that . Why does a person who lives in Wyoming have 318 % the voting power compared to an average state ? Why does a person who live in Texas have a voting power of only 79 %? If you are a Republican and you live in a heavily Democrat state that has ALWAYS voted Democrat for all of eternity , what is even the point of going to vote ? How is an election affected when 51 % of your state votes one way , vs if 100 % of your state voted that way ? Our constitution says that all men are created equal . But when our votes are no where close to equal , can we really make that claim ?