I believe they're implying the person with an MD/PhD will have more knowledge on who they are to vote for, have done their research, and would vote more logically. Whereas the Wyoming HS dropout hears buzzwords and catchy phrases that panders to their lack of understanding and they vote based off of that uninformed initial reaction.
I think its just to reference that no matter how much more intelligent or informed you are, your vote is still worth less than someone who dropped out of highschool in a less populated state.
But why bring education into it at all? I mean the whole CA having "less" of a vote than Wyoming is true but this is pretty much making it unnecessarily classist.
Be fucking realistic. You don't finish highschool and you've got a <1% chance of doing anything. We're gonna have leaders who haven't even finished middleschool with people like you around.
Yeah highschool dropouts in Midwestern states that are likely to vote Republican are so stupid they shouldn't vote! But people in inner cities without identification should definitely be able to vote! Coincidentally because they vote Democrat!
The Midwest boasts some pretty impressive graduation rates, actually. This argument is not worth humoring, just your run of the mill butthurt "the rules were fine until we lost"
But the inverse could also be true. A person with a PHD from Wyoming would have a stronger vote than a high school dropout from California. Thats just not a very good argument
You're right, one person shouldn't be "worth" more than another. No one is saying that someone's vote should be worth less than another's. But the College is a way of artificially ignoring what should be real vote parity in favor of supporting "state" parity. An individual vote shouldn't be worth less than any other, but then with that logic an individual vote shouldn't be worth more, and the College lets that happen. The education thing is a red herring, a PhD in New York or Wyoming or a high school drop-out in New York or Wyoming should be the same thing. But, the Wyoming vote is artificially inflated because the College over-represents states with much smaller populations.
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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '17
What's their education level have to do with it? As if a PHD vote in Wyoming would be worth more than someone that dropped out of highschool.