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.

So leaving our elections up to L.A. and NYC. All Democrats from now on. Hard pass. The founding fathers got it right.
Let’s explore limits. Given 50 states, two of which have population of 165,999,976 people each, and rest 48 states have population of 1, such country with Electoral College will be dictatorship of 26 people.