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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.
cross-posted from: https://kbin.social/m/[email protected]/t/488620
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.
It matters which people want it. Certainly, if the sample was all in Kansas it would be different than if they were in New York.
Where people live shouldn’t effect their voice in who is president. And the majority of Americans recognize that.
The voice of a New Yorker should not be more important than a Kansan, and a Kansan’s voice should not be more important than a New Yorker.
I’m sure those peo0le in the electoral college’s area of influence agree with you…or do they?
The whole point is that the electoral college is a bad way of determining agreement.
All votes should be equal.
The whole point of the electoral college is to give equitable representation to every state.
But it isn’t equitable because presidential candidates only ever pay attention to swing states.
And people should be represented equally. The location of a citizen shouldn’t effect the strength of their voice.
Ever single other public office in the U.S is voted by popular vote. If there were problems with it then why don’t we have mini electoral colleges for each seat? The president should be a popular vote, no different than any other office.
If it was population based, they’d only pay attention to large populations.
Don’t get me wrong, I continue not to care.
Theres only one population, the US population
I love how conservatives do not care about any topic yet they spend their precious time writing tons of comments on topics they definitely do not care about…
It’s nice to see who the real snowflakes are from time to time :D
I haven’t been a conservative since…we’ll, ever. But thanks for the ill informed remark.
Why does the state matter at all…?
Why should a vote be counted differently depending on the state it was cast in?
Pretty sure that’s the senate.
Ah, only certain people matter