65% of U.S. adults say the way the president is elected should be changed so that the winner of the popular vote nationwide wins the presidency.
65% of U.S. adults say the way the president is elected should be changed so that the winner of the popular vote nationwide wins the presidency.
As opposed to our current system, where 80% of states don’t matter because they’re not swing states.
What do you mean? They do matter? A democrat doesn’t campaign in California not because it doesn’t matter but because they know most Californians will already vote for them, same with Republicans in Texas
They don’t matter because most states use winner take all for their EC votes. Every additional vote past 50% is absolutely worthless, as is any vote cast in a state where there’s no chance to hit 50%.
With a popular vote system, every vote would still be worth something. It would be worth a politician’s while to campaign in California because even if they’d normally get 60%, as it’s still worth it to drive higher turnout or try to increase that to 65%. It’d be worth going to a hostile state because a vote is a vote. It doesn’t matter where it comes from; they’d all have equal worth.
Every vote past 50% just then wouldn’t matter at a national level. Yes it would increase the total number of votes that voted for the winning candidate, but it would also centralize power more into cities.
States with more diversity of opinion have more say. Seems reasonable to me.
Why should states have more say? We elect the president nationally. It’s not a state election, or it shouldn’t be.
Because we have 50 of them and not 350 million. It’s a simple and effective way to get a weighted average.
Why should there be a ‘weighted average’ for a federal election?
Because there’s a lot of people that don’t live in cities and they need different things from the people that live in cities.
Yes, and that’s why there are state and local elections. We’re talking about voting for president.
Literally every thread you have to argue with me. Are you doing that with everyone or just me?
Aside from that, there’s things federal government can legislate against that the state will absolutely have no say in. I’m more left wing in my politics but guns, despite being a fundamental right seems most fought against by the left and fought for by the right.
I don’t even notice usernames most of the time. Maybe I “have to” argue with you because you say a lot of disputable things. Turn down the paranoia a few notches.