• Phegan@lemmy.world
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    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)

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      They’d still win the Presidency occasionally. They’d just have to do it by adopting policies that more voters would support.

      You know - what they’re supposed to be doing.

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      They would still win, but they would have to shift their platform to capture the true political center rather than the center right.

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      The way elections are run Is mostly up to the states. The electoral college, though, is stipulated in the Constitution.

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            That’s not exactly true. Each state could choose to give their votes to the candidate that wins the national vote. Then the electoral college system would still exist on paper but in reality wouldn’t be relevant to the outcome.

            I think it would be better to amend the Constitution. But it’s not the only way to make popular vote reality.

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            Or we could ratio it out of existence. If we had 10,000 representatives then the EC would match the popular vote results.

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      The electrical collage is way overdue to be retired. I wonder if we will have the means to actually do it.

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      Unpopular Fanatics vs Apathetic Majority. Conservatives refuse to change their unpopular policies and with all the crap they pull to make elections favor them, they struggle to get 50/50. If elections were made fair and representative of the population…they would never win. The only way to win in that environment is to have the more popular policies, and that is antithetical to conservativisim.

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      Actually, it would be better for Republicans to try to convince the population their solutions are better instead of the BS we have now. It might help the Republican Party become somewhat normal again and then get more votes. I would love it if we could have real debates on real issues, instead of the BS we have now. I might even be a tad conservative in some areas… But right now, the choice is between Dems or Crazy Town. I think a popular vote would change politics and strategy so that you couldn’t have a Trump anymore.