stopthatgirl7Majority of Americans continue to favor moving away from Electoral College
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.
danieltonThey told me in high school that the electoral college was still necessary because counting the popular vote was too hard…
No. It’s because states that have huge populations would choose the president with basically zero say from most others. Technically a non representative government.
yukichigaiWhat we have now is non-representative. Rather, it's representative of land, not voters.
BuelldozerRather, it’s representative of land, not voters.
Horse feathers. There are 535 total EC votes and only 100 of those come from the Senate. The other 435 are based on the House which, as you may remember, is based on population.
The solution to this mess is upsize the HoR and tilt the ratio back to where it was prior to 1929 when we fucked it up.