Our fucked up elections

[edhopper]

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No one except die hard Trumpers think TSF can win the popular vote. Yet we face the very real danger of him being President again.
A man who the country will never vote for might still take office.
Something very wrong with that.


Added: The minute a Democrat gets in because of the EC the Repukes will move heaven and earth to change it.

[thucythucy]

1. Which is why I hate the Electoral College.

It's state of the art democracy circa 1789.

We should have ditched it decades ago.

[edhopper]

2. And barely democracy

when the majority of the adult population couldn't vote.

[thucythucy]

3. Absolutely.

White slave owning males were terrified of "the mob"--meaning the majority of the population--so they created this as a mechanism to ensure when push came to shove "property"--whether in the form of chattel or land--would always win.

It serves pretty much the same purpose today. Bush II and Trump would never have been president if not for this poison pill.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

4. Minimally, the process needs a tune-up. Or a failsafe feature for significant popular wins.

Like, just spitballing, maybe there's a popular vote lead plateau you reach after which the EC doesn't kick in.

Actually, what I find even scarier is how it works if the election is thrown to the House.

[edhopper]

5. that is scary

[Marcus IM]

6. The greatest nation on earth has F-ed elections?

What, then, gives Americans the gravitas to demand "democracy" of other nations?
Shouldn't Americans clean up their own yard before demanding it of others?