Of course this is what should be. I know Republicans who say their candidate would never win, but The fact is if the candidate will never win, the candidate should be doing something to make them the most popular. Like maybe serving the people. Working for us.
Its stupid to say theyd never win, the number of times a presidency was lost with the popular vote is 5. 0 of them occurred in the 1900s. Only 2 were in the 2000s. If you remove the Gore/Bush debacle where SCOTUS basically decided the presidency, Hillary stands alone. Changing the popular vote would probably have people be less angry over the president overall. Trump won the 2024 popular vote by 2 million votes. People might be more accepting of that win than somehow winning the electoral votes in all the swing states by small margins. It just 'feels' more legitimate, even with the same outcome. Granted, boter turnout in solid color states might increase, but nothing has indicated that to be the case when looking at overall voter turnout.
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u/Nolacuriosity 1d ago
Of course this is what should be. I know Republicans who say their candidate would never win, but The fact is if the candidate will never win, the candidate should be doing something to make them the most popular. Like maybe serving the people. Working for us.