most libertarians (3rd largest political party) would choose republicans over democrats

wisconsin for example

Joe Biden
Democratic Party
49.6%
1,630,570

Donald Trump
Republican Party
48.9%
1,610,030

Jo Jorgensen
Libertarian Party
1.2%
38,415

same goes for arizona, Pennsylvania, and georgia
thats 57 electoral votes which would mean trump wins

eh popular vote favors dems even more than an electoral college w blue texas

republicans have won 1 popular vote since 1992 and it was Bush incumbency with 9/11 and the Iraq war

this is just popular vote

it would just force the republicans to actually have a f***ing position on s*** instead of just opposite of dems

but part of this is because leftists are less willing to vote green because it hurts the dems

I guarantee ranked choice would create a solid competitive left of dem party

hmm 🤔

Wrong, it was Bush in 2004

It’s f***ing insane that 50-200k voters decide everything in a country of 300+ million

What’s ridiculous about this post is it makes the assumption that everyone who lives in those states are going to vote one way. The reality is that a lot of people don’t vote or are discouraged from voting in states like California because the EC makes it feel like your vote literally doesn’t count — because it doesn’t.

Could you explain the motivation for someone who lives in CA to vote conservative with the existence of an electoral college? Seems to me the popular vote would actually amplify individual choice instead of drowning out the minority votes in each state.

I really don’t understand the argument for electoral college. It makes a lot of votes essentially not count at all.

Popular vote also means neoliberals for the rest of the USA existence

They could if they became sane lol

In canada the Conservative party got more votes than the center left liberal party

the thing is tht the canadian conservative party is pro climate change(Even tho their solutions are Nonsense), it’s leader is pro choice and generally socially liberal and not full on economic libertarian. So basically what democrats are rn lol

So in a North American cultural climate a conservative party can definitely win more votes people just dnt realize how extreme current republicans are

That’s a slippery slope to niggas ain’t allowed to vote no more

canada conservative party would probably be democrat in usa tho right?

this isnt true at all

The idea is that every state gets at least a somewhat fair opportunity to vote for their own interests. It’s really just an antiquated holdover from when the federal government was much smaller in scale and the country was very much a union of independent states. They didn’t want the potential for one large, populous state basically ruling over all of the rest on the federal level.

Proportional vote + an expanded party system is the move

random election of lower and middle class citizens. After a month long term we vote on whether or not to keep them or find someone else.

Not exactly. They’d be solidly democrat in certain issues and to the left of republicans on most social issues but it depends.

The house dems are pretty center left but they’d be more akin to senate democrats

The electoral college system would make sense if the USA was still a true confederation of states with powerful state's rights, but that era is over and is never coming back. So just ditch it and switch to popular vote. 1 person 1 vote, or go back to a confederation of some sorts, instead of doing this impotent hybrid of federalism and centralism

inb4 "but muh population centers will rule everything"
You want land to rule instead of people?

i think states should have less power to like you said that era is over

abolish electoral college

install ranked choice voting

register every citizen

national holiday on election day