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Does this plan make sense? v2 (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Actually pretty close to the Electoral College part. The National Popular Vote currently has 205 EC votes across 16 states, it would need at least 65 more to go into effect at which point there would never be an outcome different than the national popular vote winner becoming president ever again.

Examples of presidents who lost the popular vote:

Donald Trump - Margin 2,868,686 (−2.10%)

George W. Bush - Margin 543,895 (−0.51%)

Benjamin Harrison - Margin 90,596 (−0.79%)

Rutherford B. Hayes - Margin 254,235 (−3.02%)

John Quincy Adams - Margin 38,149 (−10.44%)

For anybody wondering who won against Bush in the Good Timeline, it was Al Gore. The guy who realized Climate Change was an existential threat to us all back before the ice caps started flooding the atmosphere with methane.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago

It hurts to see you have to explain the Bush v Gore stuff. I was a kid but I remember living through it pretty vividly.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Simply removing/raising the cap on House of Representatives would give us most of the benefit - representation could be closer to actual population and electoral college presumably matches.