11-19-2016, 05:16 PM
(11-19-2016, 03:19 PM)Shake n Blake Wrote: People are still whining about the popular vote?This is the 5th time a president elect lost the popular vote. So your #2 is an invalid argument.
1. If presidents were elected based on the popular vote, the campaigns of Trump and Clinton would've been entirely different. There's no way of knowing if Trump could've drummed up more overall votes with a different strategy.
2. States like New York and California, with huge populations of mostly democrat voters, would pretty much decide every election for the entire nation. Hardly fare to the rest of the country, which has many varying sets of morals, beliefs and economic issues.
The electoral college is far from perfect, but it's in place for a reason and it beats the alternative.
So the alternative. Which is every American with voting rights has an equal say in who becomes president is way worse than a dated system that was made so slave states could have a little more pull.
Other than your claim democrats would win every election. Is there any good reason to not use a popular vote with the technology we now have?
