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by oldgulph 8y ago
The National Popular Vote bill in 2017 passed the New Mexico Senate and Oregon House. It was approved in 2016 by a unanimous bipartisan House committee vote in both Georgia (16 electoral votes) and Missouri (10). Since 2006, the bill has pa
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by oldgulph 8y ago
In 1969, The U.S. House of Representatives voted for a national popular vote by a 338–70 margin. Recent and past presidential candidates who supported direct election of the President in the form of a constitutional amendment, before the Na
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by oldgulph 8y ago
In Gallup polls since they started asking in 1944 until this election, only about 20% of the public has supported the current system of awarding all of a state's electoral votes to the presidential candidate who receives the most votes
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by oldgulph 10y ago
Now, a presidential candidate could lose while winning 78%+ of the popular vote and 39 states. With the current state-by-state winner-take-all system of awarding electoral votes (not mentioned in the U.S. Constitution, but later enacted by
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by oldgulph 10y ago
In a popular vote, candidates would spend a proportionate amount of their time in large states like California, Texas, and New York. In a nationwide election for President, candidates would campaign everywhere—big cities, medium-sized citie
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by oldgulph 10y ago
The only states, of any size, that matter are competitive states. Because of state-by-state winner-take-all laws, not mentioned, much less endorsed, in the Constitution. . . In the 2012 presidential election, 1.3 million votes decided the w
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by oldgulph 10y ago
In Gallup polls since 1944, only about 20% of the public has supported the current system of awarding all of a state's electoral votes to the presidential candidate who receives the most votes in each separate state (not mentioned in t