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Question: Should the United States change its method of electing presidents from an electoral college to direct popular vote (and a runoff if no candidate gets a majority of the vote in the first round)?
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Author Topic: Should we abolish the electoral college?  (Read 10866 times)
California8429
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Junior Chimp
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« on: August 04, 2011, 03:52:13 PM »

I'd rather have each congressional district getting a vote, going Maine and Nebraska style for the whole nation.

Having a direct popular vote is chaos if it came to a recount because instead of narrowing it down to one state, we'd have to do the entire nation. And it destroys all federalism and would heavily favor urban areas over rural states and districts which would then get zero attention at all for presidential elections.
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