Majority of Americans continue to favor moving away from Electoral College

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Majority of Americans continue to favor moving away from Electoral College - Lemmy.world

cross-posted from: https://kbin.social/m/[email protected] [/c/[email protected]]/t/488620 [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.

What does the Electoral College breakdown look like on that poll?
Why does that matter? The people want a better electoral system, one that treats all votes equally.
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 government.
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 politicians 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.

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