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That of course is why one of the two US political parties is staunchly against abolishing the electoral college.
by TwoBit 6y ago
That of course is why one of the two US political parties is staunchly against abolishing the electoral college.
- phnofive 6y agoSadly, if not surprisingly, partisan support flipped in 2016, making this less ideological than tactical. https://news.gallup.com/poll/320744/americans-support-abolishing-electoral-college.aspx https://news.gallup.com/poll/320744/americans-support-abolis...
- lenkite 6y agoDo you really trust these polls ?
- boomboomsubban 6y agoThe public's opinion is irrelevant, both parties will continue propping up systems that prevent any other competition from having a shot.
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- lkbm 6y agoThat link shows higher support (for popular vote) from Democrats than Republicans in every data point on the graph: 2000, 2011, 2016, 2019, and 2020. Partisan support has not flipped in at least 20 years. What "flipped" is that it went from overall < 50% to > 50%.
- QuadmasterXLII 6y agoDemocratic voters are opposed to the electoral college, but the leadership knows that without it, some backwater state would report 4x its population voted for trump and we’d have a constitutional crisis
- stickyricky 6y agoAlready happened under our current system. Can't imagine how extreme the problem would be if it could affect the global outcome. > the most extreme case was in South Carolina, where an impossible 101 percent of all eligible voters in the state had their votes counted https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1876_United_States_presidential_election#Electoral_disputes_and_the_Compromise_of_1877 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1876_United_States_presidentia...
- WarOnPrivacy 6y ago> That of course is why one of the two US political parties is staunchly against abolishing the electoral college. It would require a constitutional amendment. In modern times, that would seem to require the sort of prolonged alignment that follows a deep and lasting shock to the country. I don't want be around the sort of calamity that could produce a constitutional amendment.
- specialist 6y agoThere's always a workaround. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Popular_Vote_Interstate_Compact https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Popular_Vote_Intersta...