Majority of Americans continue to favor moving away from Electoral College
Majority of Americans continue to favor moving away from Electoral College
65% of U.S. adults say the way the president is elected should be changed so that the winner of the popular vote nationwide wins the presidency.
65% of U.S. adults say the way the president is elected should be changed so that the winner of the popular vote nationwide wins the presidency.
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They will never allow that because it'll kill the entire republican party lol
38 2 ReplyWon't be good for Democrats either. System is rigged for two parties and two parties only.
17 1 ReplyThis would not really change the two party system. All it would mean is that you genuinely need a majority of votes and not the majority of a weird convoluted combo of states.
5 2 ReplyIt would destroy the party system. Suddenly there's a progressive democrat party and the freedumb caucus becomes it's own thing.
I'm game for that.
3 1 ReplyFirst-past-the-post voting systems result in two conflicting parties. This would entrench the two party system. The current system is not good, but popular vote is only slightly better.
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The difference is in what the voters want.
Both parties wouldn't be for it, but liberal voters would be for it. Conservative voters would be against it.
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You'll have to pry it from their cold, dead hands.
8 1 ReplyYou mean their hands the way they are now? Glitch McConnell had a death grip on that podium....
6 0 ReplyRight. Their cold dead hands.
You can't convince me Joe Biden is actually alive. You can't. He died on the campaign trail, and he's being Weekend at Bernie's-ed by his staff.
2 8 ReplyThere's not a substantive difference in his policies if he's alive or dead...his whole platform is not Trump.
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