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In reply to the discussion: "That's 98 electoral votes away from making the electoral college effectively irrelevant." [View all]elocs
(22,474 posts)5. What a shocking surprise that we elect our presidents by electoral vote and not popular vote!
But I'm betting that if Clinton had won the presidency with the electoral vote but lost the popular vote we would be hearing very few complaints from the Left about it.
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"That's 98 electoral votes away from making the electoral college effectively irrelevant." [View all]
Miles Archer
May 2018
OP
There is nothing stopping a determined legislature and governor from changing the law
tritsofme
May 2018
#3
Just pointing out that such a pact would be inherently unstable and likely to fail.
tritsofme
May 2018
#7
In the sense that it is less doubtful we will send men back to the moon by the end of the year
tritsofme
May 2018
#22
They actually voted to do so a few hours before the SCOTUS decision. This is a part of history
stevenleser
May 2018
#10
State legislatures can change how their electors are awarded at any time, a state law would not
stevenleser
May 2018
#34
What a shocking surprise that we elect our presidents by electoral vote and not popular vote!
elocs
May 2018
#5
Even in Missouri the idea of spliting the state up into chunks was or has ...
SWBTATTReg
May 2018
#28
As long as it's just blue states signing up, it doesn't really make any difference.
Captain Stern
May 2018
#27
The day a State gives its EVs to a candidate that didn't win the majority of the State's votes...
brooklynite
May 2018
#32