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.
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.
@CoffeeAddict while the electoral college is a mess, it’d require a convention to fix, which would be very messy and unclear on the outcomes. An incremental approach would be to get the Wyoming Rule passed which would make the popular vote + electoral vote match more by making the House actually apportioned to population. You’d have to have actual voting majority in both houses + the presidency, but its possible without the downsides of a convention.
@CoffeeAddict https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyoming_Rule
This would help - the system should be proportionally representative.
The fact that some citizens have their vote count more than others is a problem. I understand that one of the initial goals was to prevent cities and high-population states from dominating the countryside, but at best it’s an over-correction. At worst, it lets low-population states veto things cities and high-population states need.
This is a bigger problem with the Senate, though. Manhattan alone has double the population of Wyoming and yet they both get equal representation.
That’s as designed. The Senate is supposed to represent the State, the House is supposed to represent the people of the State.
The actual issue is that the House hasn’t been expanded since the early 1900’s & as such isn’t representative of their state’s population in respect to every other state.
i.e., kowtowing to the physical properties of a building are preventing us from having actual representation.