Majority of Americans continue to favor moving away from Electoral College

https://lemmy.world/post/5767130

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 was designed to be unequal on purpose. The electoral is what keeps us from being ruled by the masses. It should not change.

So instead we get minority rule. Soooooo much better when the small number of loonies get to derail a functional government with a temper tantrum that 'the masses' want.

It's a badly designed system, and claiming it's like this on purpose doesn't negate how bad the system is. Also, we should not be chained to ideas that came around 250 years ago when other people have improved on the idea and made it less shitty.

Not at all. We have rule by the states.

The system is fine. It allows all states to have some say in the process.

We are ruled by the states.

Lines on map can’t rule. Only people can.