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Majority of Americans continue to favor moving away from Electoral College(www.pewresearch.org)

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cross-posted from: https://kbin.social/m/news@lemmy.world/t/488620

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.

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Given that the popular has only been overridden twice in two decades, it’s hardly a bitching point.

Well yeah, if you frame an argument badly of course it sounds stupid. But to properly frame the point, 2/5 elections were won while losing the popular vote, and 3/5 presidential terms would not have happened if we voted democratically (Bush won the popular vote based on being the incumbent and war fervor, which he only had because of his fraudulent win).

60% of all presidential terms since 2000 we’re not won democraticly, but that’s not a problem for the people who can only win that way.

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