Majority of Americans continue to favor moving away from Electoral College - eviltoast

65% of U.S. adults say the way the president is elected should be changed so that the winner of the popular vote nationwide wins the presidency.

  • postmateDumbass@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    So its bad if peoples votes in densly populated places don’t matter, but it doesn’t matter if people voting in sparely populated areas don’t matter?

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        1 year ago

        The money and politicians will focus on the large urban areas, because that will maximize time and money invested.

        People in rural areas will not have the capacity to affect things at all.

    • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      They get to vote, don’t they? They just don’t get to have their vote given extra privileges just because they live in a sparsely populated area, that’s all.