Holy Unifying Centrist
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Junior Chimp
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« on: September 10, 2017, 08:57:49 PM » |
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Republicans don't always benefit from the electoral college. While they did win the presidency because of it in 2000 and 2016, remember that in 2012, some polls were showing Obama could lose the popular vote, but losing the electoral vote was never really in the realm of possibilities. This was because Obama won a lot of swing states by a low margin, but lost by a big margin in many of the midwestern + Texas states.
I would prefer the electoral college system be changed to a proportional electoral college system (e.g if you get 50% of the voters vs your opponent's 49% of voters in California, you get the 2 votes from the senate, +50% of the remaining votes.)
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