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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.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They will never allow that because it'll kill the entire republican party lol

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Won't be good for Democrats either. System is rigged for two parties and two parties only.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This 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.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago

It 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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Instead of tilting at the windmill that is removing the EC how about we do something much easier and simpler and simply expand the House of Representatives? Not only would this add votes to the EC and make the Presidential Elections more representative it would also, you know, make the HoR more Representative! For extra fun it would also diminish the returns of gerrymandering since there would be so many more districts.

All we need is a change to the Re-Apportionment Act of 1929. There is no good reason that the size of the HoR is fixed at 435. None.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In 1929, each representative represented about 283k Americans. Now each representative represent about 762k Americans. That's almost a 300% increase. This means each American's voice is only about 1/3rd as powerful as it was in 1929. To have as much political power as they did in 1929, we'd need about 1200 Representatives.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

And yet, having more representatives fundamentally reduces the power of each as well. Your vote is fundamentally worth less as the population increases. Something you're just gonna have to come to terms with.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago

I'm ok with my vote meaning more or less as long as it's the same vote everyone else gets...that's not the case with the current system.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Two things I'd love to see. Eliminating the electoral college and then getting rid of superdelegates. Two fundamentally anti-democratic concepts.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

Two things I’d love to see.

Don't forget "ranked-choice voting".

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well superdelegates aren't exactly something the government can legislate away because they're just an internal thing of the DNC.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

Abolish parties.

Ranked-choice voting.