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Taken from JRE #1214: https://youtu.be/Igc_1TPfK9Y
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I completely disagree with him. There is nothing sacred about a pure democracy – it is just one way of choosing leaders. The electoral college is a compromise that tries to balance popular and regional interests. Without it, the election would be decided by a handful of coastal cities. The electoral college forces a national candidate to win more, smaller regional elections – how is this undemocratic? It forces a candidate to campaign in more places. To use a sports analogy, basing the election purely on the popular vote would be like taking the baseball team that scored the most total runs during the season and automatically making them the world series winner – without regard for how those runs are distributed in the games played.
If you eliminate the electoral vote, you won’t have any more 14 states deciding!!! What you will have them is the 10 most populated cities deciding the presidential election and all the resources of the state going to those cities to buy votes. This is a disaster.
If you really care about the election and the representation the best idea is letting each community decide to whom their electoral vote goes.( the person running for president who win in a congressional district is the candidate getting the electoral vote of that district)
Dims cheated in 2016, they just low-balled how many votes they had to cheat — Trump probably won popular vote.
100% the Electoral College disenfranchises voters. Why would a vote in one place count a million times more than a vote somewhere else?
Why does it matter for candidates to go to states and campaign when we have TV and the Internet? I think to have a good democracy we should really have every single person have an equal say, I really support the national popular vote interstate compact!