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[–] [S] 3 points 6 days ago (1 child)

I think favor may have been the wrong word. My point was that the electoral college will be near impossible for Republicans to capture without Texas.

I think a popular vote favors the Democratic party because, well, theyre the more popular party. But if Texas truly has gone blue, I think the popular vote is Republicans only path to victory.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 days ago

    I agree with that. I also have concerns about the whole electoral process. The work around for popular vote would require us to know what the popular vote is. How does a state even know that in a "certified" way, and if it it really close, there is no way to do a nation wide recount. There are a lot of practical issues with implementing nation wide popular vote. So I have reservations about this.

    The other issue of course is the whole gerrymandering thing. The need to really have elections demand a 50% vote either by IRV or a separate run-off election to eliminate spoiler effects. There are tons of issues overall with our electoral system. One big issue is we have a system that empowers 2 parties and makes it difficult for those parties to have any meaningful competition at all.

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