Democrats, including Democrats running for president, want to get rid of the electoral college.
A majority of Americans want to replace the Electoral College. By casting popular viewpoints as extreme, the hard right has moved the goal posts. Time to remind everyone where the real center is. https://t.co/5xiRa2RQJH
— Pete Buttigieg (@PeteButtigieg) March 9, 2019
By holding their 2020 national convention in Milwaukee, Democrats believe they're appealing to the concerns of Wisconsinites.
The wisdom in the creation of the Electoral College. pic.twitter.com/UhZ0ksNCqI
— Randy McCoy (@randybmccoy) March 6, 2019
The Democrats disdain our cows and the electoral college. They promote doing away with them.
The issues matter, not the location of their convention. Democrats can't claim to care about Wisconsin voters and then call for destroying the livelihood of our citizens and marginalizing us politically.
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In Gallup polls since they started asking in 1944 until the 2016 election, only about 20% of the public has supported the current system of awarding all of a state's electoral votes to the presidential candidate who receives the most votes in each separate state (not mentioned in the U.S. Constitution, but later enacted by 48 states) (with about 70% opposed and about 10% undecided).
Support for a national popular vote for President has been strong among Republicans, Democrats, and Independent voters, as well as every demographic group in every state surveyed. In the 41 red, blue, and purple states surveyed, overall support has been in the 67-81% range - in rural states, in small states, in Southern and border states, in big states, and in other states polled.
There are several scenarios in which a candidate could win the presidency in 2020 with fewer popular votes than their opponents. It could reduce turnout more, as more voters realize their votes do not matter.
Most Americans don't ultimately care whether their presidential candidate wins or loses in their state or district. Voters want to know, that no matter where they live, even if they were on the losing side, their vote actually was equally counted and mattered to their candidate. Most Americans think it is wrong that the candidate with the most popular votes can lose. It undermines the legitimacy of the electoral system. We don't allow this in any other election in our representative republic.
The National Popular Vote bill was approved in 2016 by a unanimous bipartisan House committee vote in both Georgia (16 electoral votes) and Missouri (10).
Since 2006, the bill has passed 37 state legislative chambers in 23 rural, small, medium, large, Democratic, Republican and purple states with 261 electoral votes, including one house in Arizona (11), Arkansas (6), Maine (4), Michigan (16), Nevada (6), North Carolina (15), and Oklahoma (7), and both houses in Colorado (9), Delaware (3), and New Mexico (5).
The bill has been enacted by 12 small, medium, and large jurisdictions with 172 electoral votes – 64% of the way to guaranteeing the majority of Electoral College votes and the presidency to the candidate with the most national popular votes.
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