They should switch to the popular vote but that's not happening because Republicans wouldn't win another election

It would definitely force them to evolve and stop relying on cheap tricks to get elected

popular vote would make republicans stop courting racists and switch to a christian values / reduced government party that targets conservative minorities just as much as conservative white people

When southern states wanted as much voting power as the north without letting their black population vote

No. The electoral system is actually a pretty decent system to counter hive mind and not making it the united states of California, New York, Texas & the rest.

It’s not a good idea because people will just randomly vote and they will not know much about the policies of the people they vote for. To be honest I think there should be a test before you vote asking to name just one or maybe two policies of the candidate you’re voting for. That would stop image voting and make politics more about policies.

Idk man, I can’t imagine another candidate being hated as much as Trump was, and Trump just got the second most votes of any candidate ever. Obviously that’s behind Joe, but that suggests there are a lot of conservatives out there. If Trump was likable, Joe probably wouldn’t have gotten as much turnout as he did. A likable conservative could possibly win the popular vote.

Bush won the popular vote in 2024. Bush Sr won the popular vote in 88, Reagan won in both 80 and 84. I’m guessing they aren’t counting 88 because that was technically 32 years and a week ago lol

Bush 04. Bush 88 too but that was a week over 32 years ago

This is only correct if you assume voters in these states are a monolith, and that voters in large states have some unifying interest in political issues, which is clearly not the case. The 5 largest states are 2 safe blue states, 2 red/lean red states and a swing state

Either way, it's still an improvement on being the United States of Pennsylvania, Georgia, Florida, Arizona, and Wisconsin where we currently are

Whatever system replaces the EC still needs to allow for smaller states to vote for their interests and not have every national election be controlled by a few large population centers.

Proportional vote by state seems like a good compromise
Rewards trying to win in every state

One of my coworkers truly believed that there should be an IQ requirement to vote. This coworker is dumb as s***, mind you.

Rt

Centrist Party vs Progressive Party

Centrism wins 81-19%

the electoral college is an outdated concept

It's more important that we have ranked choice voting imo.

so trump wouldve won 🤔

I'm not sure it would be like that but I'm kind of an idiot so maybe?

the "centrist" party would still be right wing lmao

if we kept electoral college but had ranked choice republicans would win senate without runoff and trump would win

In comparsion to the progressive party maybe, but progressive is just a buzzword for policy created by ignorant people that will never actually happen

So how progress-ive are they really

Oh I'm thinking if we had ranked choice we never would have got into this situation lol. Like if it was a thing since 2000. We'd be in a much different spot.

Progress Party vs Progressive Party

Progress Party wins 81-19

ranked choice would hurt democrat party and popular vote would hurt republicans

I don't get why ranked choice f***s dems more than others.