i feel like its purpose was to avoid exactly this situation though
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everything is being put to the test. We're finding out the hard way how much our institutions can endure.
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50% of the presidents that have been elected in my lifetime got their first term w/o the popular vote. That feels gross to me.
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it's based on population. CA and NY would determine more elections than less populated states who also have rights & voices
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Yes, like giving us George W. Bush and Donald Trump and giving people in Wyoming 40 times the power you have as a CA voter.
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which are?
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I'm not your civics teacher. And I need to go chill out and watch Star Trek now.

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In principle it is worth keeping, but the numbers need rethinking beyond census change.
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Can we at least get an odd number? 269/269 takes it out of the voters hands completely. How is that democracy?
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that's a worst case scenario. I don't like it but Trump won fair & square. He got more votes in states w/electoral delegates
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