Majority of Americans continue to favor moving away from Electoral College

Ranked choice.

Fix gerrymandering.

Popular vote.

If you don't want this, you're simply a sore loser. You dont want democracy, you want a boys club.

I get that the Electoral College was originally designed to give smaller states an equal say. But, when Los Angeles county has more population than like 10 states combined, things are getting ridiculous.

California has like 67 times the population of Wyoming... yet they each have two senators. And that keeps increasing.

Our government is not a good representation of the populace.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Popular_Vote_Interstate_Compact

You could make the argument that if it was solely down to the popular vote, the last Republican president would have been George Bush in 1988.

The only Republican since then to win the popular vote was Bush II for his second term in 2004, but it's arguable that since Gore would have been the incumbent he might not have won that one. Plus there are a lot of hypotheticals like whether 9/11 could have been prevented under Gore, or if it had happened if the response was less aggressive, or if Bush II would have even run again after losing the first time etc. So it's impossible to say but certainly conceivable that Gore would have gone for two terms IMO.

It's wild that if multiple things we implemented republicans would never win the presidency again.

Any anti voter suppression method, like universal mail in voting

Ranked choice voting

Removal of the electoral college

I am sure there are even more.

Remember that republicans are the minority, they just show up to vote more often (and aren't actively suppressed)

Can we please just get ranked choice voting

Ah, but is a significant enough amount of that majority located in the lowest population states to make it matter?

Problem is that "Majority" isn't gonna get rid of the Electoral College. Because Electoral College. Unpopulated states still have excess control.

So how do we get a constitutional amendment passed to do this?

Especially with the republicans only able to win the presidency through the electoral college. They’re gonna cling to that shit with their dying breath.

this poll may show that Americans want electoral college gone, but if you look at where they answered, you can instead count the answers given by state delegates and then it turns out Americans love the electoral college!

How we did this

In 2000 and 2016, the winners of the popular vote lost their bids for U.S. president after receiving fewer Electoral College votes than their opponents. To continue tracking how the public views the U.S. system for presidential elections, we surveyed 8,480 U.S. adults from July 10 to 16, 2023.

Everyone who took part in the current survey is a member of Pew Research Center’s American Trends Panel (ATP), an online survey panel that is recruited through national, random sampling of residential addresses. This way nearly all U.S. adults have a chance of selection. The survey is weighted to be representative of the U.S. adult population by gender, race, ethnicity, partisan affiliation, education and other categories. Read more about the ATP’s methodology.

Here are the questions used for this analysis, along with responses, and its methodology.

It's easier to remove or even modify the Reapportionment Act of 1929 to enlarge the total number of electoral votes in the college than it is to remove the Electoral College itself.

I can already hear it...

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Alternatively, with a simple bill we can establish an EC so large or doesn't effectively matter. We would just repeal the inter-war bill freezing the size of the House of Representatives and set the ratio to something that means even Montana gets 20 EC votes.

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I get it, but then only like 4 counties in the whole country decide an election.