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Comments by "Zach B" (@zachb1706) on "The Popular Vote vs. the Electoral College | 5 Minute Video" video.
Our actually quite ingenious, minus the individual electors. But they are being phased out anyway
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Because Wyoming doesn’t have many voters, but they deserve a say because they are intact apart of the United States
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It really doesn’t, who was in power for the last 3 terms? 2 Democrats and 1 republican.
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Kale H do you know why? Because the big states would rule. California had a 4 million people decide between the two parties, the election would pretty much be decided primarily by California every time.
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Kale H because swing states don’t change? Trump won 4 blue wall states in 2016, Michigan being one. They hadn’t voted republican since 1988. States do change, and if voters hot out there and voted we would see more and more changes. And no one is going to win with only 22% of the vote. It’s about as likely as someone winning with less than 1% (it’s possible, theoretically). If that’s supposed to invalidate a very good system that bridges the gap between the big and small, it is really not working.
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Kale H not really. It’s as absurd as the fact that with a popular vote system the president can be elected by 9 out of the 50 states. We can talk numbers all day, but the point stands: the electoral college is a fair system that aims to narrow the gap between the large sand small states. It does g favour either one too much.
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No they don’t. Period, the end.
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David Rizzardi it’s a sign of it working. It worked and still works to this day. It’s role is to give more power to the smaller states to even out the odds. Trump destroyed Hillary, there’s no way around it. With a popular vote system to vote our president, big states like California and New York would be the only ones campaigned towards. New York would go really well, as it sucks up all of the federal taxes at the cost of the rest of the country to secure another presidency. Trump won, look at the map. He held 10 more states than Hillary.
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David Rizzardi that complete idiot changed the entire map. 4 blue wall states voted for republican, and your going to sit here and tell me trump didn’t campaign well? And the electoral college does represent the people, it just makes sure that the minority states also get represented. I guess the left is only supportive of the minority when it helps them, the awful pandering. Now tell me: how could trump have stopped the Covid-19 outbreak? Realistically. He shut the borders to China extremely early, which lead to huge outrage from the left. Perhaps he should have shut down the entire US borders, but at that time China and the WHO was telling the world that COVID-19 wasn’t very infectious. Once it got in however, he has no control. He cannot instate a nation wide lockdown - it’s against the constitution. He left it up to the states to handle.
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John Lyon you can’t predict how voters vote. If you could trend you wouldn’t have CNN boasting Hillary’s 89% chance to win.
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It’s first past the post because there’s only 538 votes. If you have 270 votes then the other candidate can at best get 268.
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And be voter has more power because the state is smaller. If you live in a state like California, yes your vote is not worth as much - but your state is worth 55. This is to stop mob rule, where the larger states control the country.
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The NPV is a popular vote method. It’s also unconstitutional.
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Because each state has its own ideals. It’s the United States
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How so?
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Funny
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California doesn’t get visited?
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The problem with that system is that swing states will pretty much be worth nothing in the presidential election. If there’s only 1 or 2 votes between them, then that state is only worth 1-2. The current system is a merger of a popular vote (winner takes all) and a weighted vote (the electoral college).
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Then you would have gerrymandering like with the congressional districts.
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Jack Bell no such thing and sensible borders. What do you base it on? Population? Area? What happens if state boundaries change? How often do you change it? Will it give some areas too much power?
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Cool. Great to hear our system works. And he would have, in 2004 he won 50.7% of votes.
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Venezuela worked out well. And what other countries have a popular vote? Some definitely do, not most don’t. Even countries like Australia and the UK have a senate that gives more seats per voter to the smaller states or provinces.
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Zwiebelface no, but you said almost every country used popular vote, and that it works better. It doesn’t. Just ask Russia.
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Did she win? No. 2016 is a show that the electoral college works.
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Operation Dragoon yep. Just because you campaign doesn’t mean you win. There’s a difference between campaigning poorly and campaigning well. Trump did phenomenally. Say what you want about him, but when he does well he really does well. Especially in those debates.
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Like?
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By whom is it considered a flawed democracy? China? Russia?
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Ahh yes, UK. The pioneers of democracy. Yet they still live under a monarchy. Where does the royal family get their money again? That’s right, the taxpayers. What a joke.
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