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entr0pysays...I just found out over the weekend that there is a way to ensure that the presidency goes to the winner of the popular vote, without modifying the constitution, and without getting rid of the electoral collage. Basically, once enough states sign on to the agreement, they will all vote as a block for whoever won the national popular vote, regardless of who won their state. 11 states have already signed on.
http://www.nationalpopularvote.com/written-explanation
Also, having proven himself a man of principle, we can assume Donald Trump is on board :
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/266038556504494082?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
CrushBugsays...As a foreigner, the Electoral College has always looked like the weirdest concept ever.
SDGundamXsays...The best way to explain it is that the Founding Fathers of the U.S. basically predicted that someday there could be an outcome like the most recent election, where people voted based on their emotions (fear, anger, hatred--all the Dark Side stuff) and not on logic or reason.
The Founding Fathers didn't trust the common man to be educated enough to always make reasonable decisions and wanted to ensure that there was a brake in place to prevent "mob rule." That "brake" is the Electoral College, a collection of (ostensibly) politically-educated individuals who could prevent demagogues (like Trump) from taking power.
I think this is the first time in history where the Electoral College can do the job it was intended to do. If the Electors put aside political partisanship, they'll recognize how putting a completely inexperienced, hate-inducing liar into the White House is a terrible idea and ensure Trump doesn't get the Presidency.
Of course, Electors not voting along party lines is in actuality highly unlikely to happen as, in the end, Electors are all long-standing and high-ranking Democrat or Republican Party members. I mean, if you were a Republican Elector whose party had spent the last eight years without a Presidential win, watching time and again as legislation in a Republican controlled congress gets vetoed down by a Democratic president, even a man like Trump is going to start to look tempting. So the safe bet is that Trump gets elected anyway and the Elector College proves itself again to be a pointless institution for this and all the other reasons explained in the video.
As a foreigner, the Electoral College has always looked like the weirdest concept ever.
littledragon_79says...Meh. I would say gerrymandered districts need to be fixed and the practice needs to be outlawed. Then we can come back to the electoral college.
TheFreaksays...It does seem like poetic justice if Trump won because of the electoral college and then the electoral college did what they were designed to do and did not award him the presidency.
That's too good a story twist not to happen.
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