Message from @AwesomeGuy42
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I am embarrassed that my country donated $25 million to the Clinton campaign
and I will never not vote in a federal election ever
because all I need to do
is remember Trump won my state by 10,000 votes
Which State you in?
Michigan
Nice
a state that's been decisively blue since before I was born
Didn't they force a recount and found out that Trump just gained votes?
pretty sure, yeah
And then just stopped?
and Hillary won popular vote too
which mainly happened because urban areas voted for her way more
Have the vote of the biggest cities and you have a lot of the votes
the electoral college is simultaneously a very good and a very wack thing
But you don't have the votes across the rest of the country
its meant to prevent mob rule basically
exactly
I find the Electoral College an interesting idea
it's wack because you think "wait, more people liked you but you still lost?!"
"oh, a lot of those areas were echo chambers"
I've seen videos where they teach children that America is a Democracy
And I'm like "..Wut?"
I would call the US
a half-democracy
Well, it's a form of Democracy
the only question i have is the different rules around the electors votes. some have them vote whatever they want, others are winner of the popular in the state takes all. i don't know if there is one that splits them up roughly off the popular results. like 60 40 if that was the popular
the US is a republic
Constitutional Republic. Forgot the damn name for a sec 😛
almost all states are winner-take-all
almost all
there are like 1 or 2 states that are ratio based
I wonder how messing with that would change things
also electors can technically vote freely but I don't think they ever really do, pretty sure most states have repercussions if they do
depends on the election grenade
some years it'd be virtually meaningless
some years it would fuck shit up
well obviously it would only matter in close elections. but i wonder if it would chance much how candidates would campaign
it might actually change that substantially
because electoral votes to population would be roughly equal across the entire country