As governor he got his state signed on to the national popular vote interstate compact

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    This isn’t the electoral college causing the problem. It’s Congress capping the size of the house 100 years ago. It needs to be increased, but it won’t happen without force as it requires Congress to agree to reduce their individual power.

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      sigh

      Yes, it is the EC causing the problem. You’ll never get 1:1 with it in place no matter what congress does.

      There’s 0 reason the president, representative of all people, should use this shitty system for election

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        It’s a federalist Republic, direct democracy is the opposite of the design.

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          This isn’t direct democracy, we aren’t voting on every issue that would otherwise come across the presidents desk. We are still electing representatives to make decisions on our behalf.

          We are still a federation of states (federalist) represented by elected decision making leaders (Republic).

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          Sure but I don’t think anyone could look at it and critically think the current system is for the benefit of the common man in any way shape or form.

          It was designed to prevent Trump, instead Trump happened. That’s a flaw in our current system that needs to be fixed.