Get a beach house/old relative in florida and register to vote absentee and your vote will count because Florida is a kingmaker with 29 EV.
Popularity isn't a measure of intensity of feeling. There are very few people that care deeply about this. Sure, if you ask people (who mostly have no idea why the EC exists or even how it works, so who cares what they think?) they'll mostly say that they don't like it, but the nearly complete lack of effort to change it shows how much people actually care about this.
By the way, a federal change isn't needed. Getting more states on board with the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact would handle this.
Of course, Democrat enthusiasm for bothering with that more or less stopped when political hacks realized that the EC would likely favor them in the short run. They turned out to be wrong, but they couldn't know that in 2008 or 2009 when they had the sway and mandate to move the needle on these sorts of things.
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-ynnady
The us vote system works the way it works because negros got the right to vote, and they live mainly in towns. And they wanted the former slaves to have their votes count less than the white (mainly rural) peoples vote.
In a truly democratic system, a vote is a vote and every single vote has the same impact.
In the us, a vote counts more if u are living outside of dense population centres,aka are not a black township guy.
Several presidents of the US were voted against the majority of votes (Bush jr for example), and i think its a kind of hidden apartheid politics system in work to keep the white rural minorities that mostly are on the republic party overly represented.
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-ynnady
Really, because that isn't what you said. You said they should stop stealing your money, opps!
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You aren't totally wrong, but most black people don't live in cities.
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Do you know who gets to decide whether we go to war, regardless of how they vote? The President. The congress can't force the President to prosecute a war.
"stop puting you idiotic liberal words into my mouth"
-ynnady
What's with railing on Iowa in this thread? Iowa's a relatively low dependency state. The big welfare recipient states are mostly the impoverished Southern states.
Oh, so you said it every single day, but you don't recall it coming up in one particular class, so obviously it was never instilled. Makes total sense.
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Iowa isn't the problem by comparison, but someone else brought up Iowa.
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-ynnady
Did people cry this much about the system when obama won?
Yeah, they also made up elaborate conspiracy theories about how Obama was a secret Kenyan Muslim who wasn't really a citizen and therefore couldn't be President. These conspiracy theories were pushed very much out in the open, including on Fox News, and even by this guy named Donald J. Trump (who also lost his shit in 2012 when he mistakenly believed Romney won the popular vote, and called for a revolution).
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-ynnady
One thing I have always noticed about the system is that its good when the person they want wins. Bad when the person they want to win doesn't. Right now Republicans will refuse to even look at the system for example. But if they lose the next election with the majority of the popular vote but lose the college they will be up in arms to change it. Just as democrats are now. This is pretty much the balance that will always keep it the same. Unless of course a 3rd party ends up winning. Then for once it would be likely it would change because the D's and the R's would get together to shit on the new guy.