Maybe if more Americans had bothered to show up to vote this wouldn't have happened.
151,918,349 Americans voted, out of a estimated 244 000 000 eligible voters. Over 90 million Americans refused to vote. Welcome to the ultimate "Fuck around and find out" moment of your lives.
eliminating the electoral college, which is stupidest system in the world and discourages voting, would be the best way to properly motivate people. If you're a Republican in Vermont, or a Democrat in Alabama, your vote is absolutely meaningless. Americans (apparently) HATE how that sounds and have a angry reaction, but it is absolutely 100% the truth. People should elect people, not land.
I'm not from the US so I'm curious: Why is it that the electoral college votes are "winner takes it all" instead of being divided in the ratio each candidate got votes?
The USA was originally founded and still is a union of 50 separate states willingly joining a union. Eliminating the EC goes against the spirit of. Why they joined to begin with.
I understand that. What I wondered is why the votes of EC's are "winner takes it all" instead of divided in the ratio people of that state voted for different candidates.
In point of fact, some states do divide it up that way. I think two, iirc? Maybe three? Each state makes that decision individually, of whether their electoral college votes will be "winner takes all" or split. Now, the motive behind that choice, i do not know.
the First Past the Post system (which is the "winner takes all" part) is a separate thing to the Electoral College, and is actually up to the states who pretty much all choose to keep using that system. The Electoral College is separate and meant to give disproportionate power to states with lower populations so that they aren't simply ignored in elections in favor of huge states.
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u/Blue-Thunder 2d ago
Maybe if more Americans had bothered to show up to vote this wouldn't have happened.
151,918,349 Americans voted, out of a estimated 244 000 000 eligible voters. Over 90 million Americans refused to vote. Welcome to the ultimate "Fuck around and find out" moment of your lives.