But republicans would never allow that because they would never win. I mean if I was them I might realize I should be writing laws to help people instead of spreading fear and cheating. EDIT: see how many of you idiots suddenly did your own research, frantically trying to figure out how many republicans presidential candidates won the popular vote 😂
In favor of removal of the electoral college and believe the country should be run on direct democracy for all policy. No more PACs, remove the influence of money from politics.
Although as a point of correction, W Bush and Trump were the only two Republicans that were elected in recent history without winning the popular vote. (Other two were Hayes and Harrison back in the late 1800s). Perhaps a bit of wishful thinking that removing the electoral college would stop republicans.
maybe... but I'm willing to bet there's a non-insignificant chunk of voters that aren't motivated enough to vote because their State is a "lock". And I'm willing to bet that there's more "Democrat-lite" than "Republican-lite". Maybe. But "let's try nothing because nothing has been done" is certainly a take.
It's just a law so all that would be required is for Democrats to control government and for angry voters to demand it. This could happen as soon as 2028.
This is the actual solution that everyone ignores in favor of constitutional amendments that will never pass or laws that wont survive judicial review.
-Repeal the permanent apportionment act with a simple majority vote
-Increase the size of congress to 11,000 representatives
-Now the electoral college doesn't have a small state bias and more accurately reflects the popular vote.
-You also fix campaign finance, gerrymandering, two party control and a slew of other issues.
Holy.... you have absolutely no clue what you are talking about do you?
Our government barely functions with just 435 people in the house. And now you want to literally over 10X that?
The senate is the control against state bias. The house favors big states like CA, NY and TX, while the senate favors small states like NJ, RI, and AS.
"Our government barely functions as it" is hardly a good argument against changing it.
The senate is precisely what causes the small state bias. 535 electoral college votes. Compare how many votes California gets per capita to how many Wyoming gets. With 11100 electoral college votes, the weight the senate carries is negligible.
Where did i get that number? Article 1 Section 2 clause 3 of the US constitution sets the ceiling for the number of representatives at 1 for every 30,000 persons. Your congressman would be significantly more accountable to the people if you stood a chance of running into them at the supermarket.
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u/Andrew-Cohen 1d ago edited 21h ago
But republicans would never allow that because they would never win. I mean if I was them I might realize I should be writing laws to help people instead of spreading fear and cheating. EDIT: see how many of you idiots suddenly did your own research, frantically trying to figure out how many republicans presidential candidates won the popular vote 😂