The Electoral College Sucks

[Moliere]

Allocating electoral votes to the popular vote winner is dumb. However, allocating those electoral votes to a candidate that wins a majority of the popular vote isn’t a bad idea.

[USUC]

What about this in response to the compact?

From Tara Ross on Twitter:

Maybe non-NPV states need their own Interstate Compact: If #NPV compact is in operation (& ONLY in those yrs),all non-NPV states agree not 2 release internal pop vote totals until after meetings of #ElectoralCollege. NPV won't be able to tabulate nat'l pop vote total they need

[Omaha 680]

If this compact were fully adopted and upheld, would you ever see a general election presidential candidate in a rural county, or even outside of the top 20 or so population centers ever again? Tell me again how this is supposed to reduce polarization.

I suppose if the argument is "shut up, hicks. you have a outsized voice in presidential politics and we need to crush it", that at least makes sense. But come out and say it.

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[creekster]

I like the electoral college. I would leave it alone.

[BlueK]

If this compact were fully adopted and upheld, would you ever see a general election presidential candidate in a rural county, or even outside of the top 20 or so population centers ever again?
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if you're talking about one of the maybe 40-45 or so non-swing states we never see it now.

[Uncle Ted]

California is one of the states that has already passed it.

LOL@California... The other blue states need to get on-board!

[Uncle Ted]

Also, doesn't the Colorado law disenfranchise their own voters? "Hey, it doesn't matter how you folks vote, we are casting out lots with whatever the other states decide." Seems like that would be ripe for a legal challenge.

It is just telling voters in Colorado they can just stay home... their vote doesn't matter. (Well OK, less than before.)

[Omaha 680]

if you're talking about one of the maybe 40-45 or so non-swing states we never see it now.

Are you suggesting that currently, general election candidates visit only 5-10 states during their candidacy? That's demonstrably false. I just looked up Trump. In 2016 he held rallies in 42 states, 25 of which he visited after May 1. And ads are everywhere.

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[BlueK]

Are you suggesting that currently, general election candidates visit only 5-10 states during their candidacy? That's demonstrably false. I just looked up Trump. In 2016 he held rallies in 42 states, 25 of which he visited after May 1. And ads are everywhere.

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They focus on those states.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features...one-handy-gif/

[myboynoah]

California is one of the states that has already passed it.

Yeah, I saw this on a report after posting. As I recall Washington and Illinois and some others have also willingly ceded their electoral college votes to the rest of us. How kind.

[Uncle Ted]

They focus on those states.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features...one-handy-gif/

LOL@Clinton What the hell was she doing in California? Didn't know it was a swing state. She is so dumb.

I hope she runs again in 2020.

[Moliere]

They focus on those states.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features...one-handy-gif/

But their policies are currently more broad. Without the electoral college, their policies would turn to benefit only the people in large cities and would ignore the rural areas.

[Uncle Ted]

Psychedelic Warlord says he will take Texas... and wants to scrap the electoral college!

Beto O'Rourke, in NH, predicts he could take Texas in the general election

Beto O’Rourke predicts that if he wins the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, he’ll take his native state of Texas in the general election.


The former congressman from El Paso also said he would “absolutely” support his campaign staff if they wanted to unionize. He also would consider lowering the federal voting age to 16, scrapping the Electoral College, increasing the number of justices on the Supreme Court, and eliminating the filibuster in the Senate.
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Winning Texas and its 38 electoral votes would be a major coup for the Democrats.
[...]

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/bet...neral-election

Wait, I thought the Dems wanted to get rid of the electoral college?

[Pelado]

Psychedelic Warlord says he will take Texas... and wants to scrap the electoral college!


https://www.foxnews.com/politics/bet...neral-election

Wait, I thought the Dems wanted to get rid of the electoral college?

When was the last time O'Rourke won a statewide election in Texas?

[Uncle Ted]

When was the last time O'Rourke won a statewide election in Texas?

Given that Beto only lost by 220,000 votes in 2018 the Dems consider that a victory... what they don’t mention is that was against Ted Cruz.


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