How big of a vote gap would it take for you to drop the Electoral College?

[BmorePat87]

(04-02-2019, 07:31 PM)bfine32 Wrote: Our last National Election: Not one word of how bad the EC is. You, yourself told me it would be a blowout. But as soon as POTUS is elected using the EC, folks come out of the woodwork to try to taint it because he didn't win a metric we were not measuring. 

Personally I have no problem with the EC; as I assume the framers had their reasons and they've been shown to be pretty sharp. But if this Congress wants to go against their plan and has a rational reasoning, then I likewise have 0 issue. 

The contemporary case against the Electoral College has been talked about for a while, particularly after 2001. The idea that someone could lose by millions of votes and still win the EC was seen as an incredibly unlikely scenario. It happened though. Clinton had 3 million more people vote for her but lost because 108,000 people in 3 states didn't vote for her. The chances of that are very narrow.

It certainly was a legitimate factor in the election and worth noting.