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Electoral college

It doesn't matter. The electoral college is a fact of life.

It does matter when two recent presidential elections were won by the person receiving lesser votes. I'm sure if the roles were reversed the GOP would be demanding the electoral college be dissolved.

The popular vote should win, period. Make people feel like their vote actually counts and maybe our turnout will be better instead of the masses feel like they've been robbed and hence why vote in the future. Our poor voter turnout is pathetic.
 
It does matter when two recent presidential elections were won by the person receiving lesser votes. I'm sure if the roles were reversed the GOP would be demanding the electoral college be dissolved.

The popular vote should win, period. Make people feel like their vote actually counts and maybe our turnout will be better instead of the masses feel like they've been robbed and hence why vote in the future. Our poor voter turnout is pathetic.

Sorry, but there's nothing in the Constitution about the popular vote.

Get over your butthurt.
 
It does matter when two recent presidential elections were won by the person receiving lesser votes. I'm sure if the roles were reversed the GOP would be demanding the electoral college be dissolved.

The popular vote should win, period. Make people feel like their vote actually counts and maybe our turnout will be better instead of the masses feel like they've been robbed and hence why vote in the future. Our poor voter turnout is pathetic.

Then get moving on convincing 38 states to ratify that Constitutional amendment, meanwhile the point is moot.
 
Then get moving on convincing 38 states to ratify that Constitutional amendment, meanwhile the point is moot.

That's really all there is to it.
 
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The electoral college was created to help out small states. It give small states a little more power.

I'm not sure how it helps out small states but it does.
 
That was in 2012 when Republican candidate Mitt Romney lost to President Barack Obama, why are we going all the way back there? When other things are brought up from the past about other than Trump we are told basically that was then this is now. So I say that was then this is now, get over it.
 
It does matter when two recent presidential elections were won by the person receiving lesser votes. I'm sure if the roles were reversed the GOP would be demanding the electoral college be dissolved.

The popular vote should win, period. Make people feel like their vote actually counts and maybe our turnout will be better instead of the masses feel like they've been robbed and hence why vote in the future. Our poor voter turnout is pathetic.
My only issue with the electorial college is how the states award them in a winner take all fashion.

I think they should either be awarded porportionately or by congressional district. I think its unfortunate that the left does not really get a say if they live in texas and the right gets shut out in california.

The problem isnt the concept but how the states manage their allotted votes. A candidate who wins a state by 1 vote should not recieve 100% of that states electorial votes.

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It does matter when two recent presidential elections were won by the person receiving lesser votes. I'm sure if the roles were reversed the GOP would be demanding the electoral college be dissolved.

The popular vote should win, period. Make people feel like their vote actually counts and maybe our turnout will be better instead of the masses feel like they've been robbed and hence why vote in the future. Our poor voter turnout is pathetic.

So, your beef with the Electoral College is that it worked? And, because it worked, but not in your party’s favor, it is undemocratic and must be dissolved?

Wouldn’t it be logical for the Democratic Party to exercise a bit of self reflection to determine how they keep winning the popular vote but losing the Electors? The rules of the game have been the same, essentially, for 230 years. This isn’t a surprise to anyone, except a few who are too lazy to think about how to win according to the rules.
 
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