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the electoral college obviously sounds r-slurred but I just wanted to laugh at the circlejerk levels reached here
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Not really though? Maybe it's too complicated for Europeans, but people in all states/counties deserve to be represented.
!strayans imagine if sydney and Melbourne single handedly deciced every election
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Not only that, but each state has its own election laws, so just adding up the vote from different systems makes little sense. Like a state might say, we should let felons or 16-year-olds or whatnot have the vote, not because we think that this is a good idea but because it gives us more power relative to other states.
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States would no longer decide elections, individuals would.
However I support the electoral college because I genuinely believe that most Americans are too stupid to be allowed to vote and Mob Rule is the worst aspect of democracy, as the Founding Fathers wisely knew.
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they intended for the electoral college
to be some deep state 
shit where 
elites could override the public 
vote if the winner 
was problematic 
but it doesn't function like that.
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It's similar to a parliament elects a prime minister who acts as chief executive. People who you elect to vote.
Honestly they should require all parties to have their Primary elections 49.99% weighted by superdelegates with the popular vote merely confirming it.
Dems tell their voters what's best for them while Republicans literally let any r-slur in the door.
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Instead we get to let Queensland frick up the country for us
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So crazy how all the askreddit posters got together and agreed to start posting loaded political questions in the same format every day instead of what's the sexiest s*x you can have type posts. Great coordination for millions of people to do that organically.
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Lol I forgot about the ask reddit sexy s*x questions because it's been non stop political questions and sneeding for a decade now
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The difference between political propaganda and s*x talk is that some redditors have experienced voting.
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Enlighten me in case I'm missing something, but why is this a discussion when this election was won both by popular and electoral vote? This feels like it came from 2016
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Some of this has to be botted. I remember a few after action 2024 posts complaining that the popular vote doesn't decide elections. Must have been pre-canned
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i read somewhere that due to population shifts, by the next census its possible that even with safe blue states and the blue wall Democrats won't have enough votes to win the electoral college.
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In higher turn out elections the popular vote trends towards the Democrats. Wouldn't guarantee victory, but it would certainly help
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i thought the leftoids considered this racist because it makes it too complicated for BIPOCs
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We have that now for some local elections and all it did was make it possible to get on the city council with less than 20k votes in a city with 500k registered voters where 80% of them voted.
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I'd prefer it but it will never happen cause Texas is cucked
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Like most things we did it the most r-slurred way possible.
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This argument applies only to places with a Democratic majority.
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I agree, please let California decide federal elections
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Eliminate national incorporation of political parties. All parties must incorporate at the State level. No interstate funding between them. Donors to parties must be state residents. All donors must have a social security number and be citizens. Donation caps enforced.
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Would ranked choice really even change things when the Democrats and Republicans are so dominant already?
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Not really, it's just a tool to funnel 3rd party votes into thw primary 2 parties.
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Other parties would have to establish themselves first, but probably after enough elections it would change things considerably
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nothing stops regional parties from running
for house 
and senate elections.
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I love the idea of having four cities decide every election!
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Feels good. Restorative justice in the works.
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Trump literally just won the popular vote, Republicans don't need the Electoral College anymore.
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