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Elect President via Popular Vote.

Democracy is 1 person, 1 vote.
State officials are elected via popular vote.
Why not POTUS?
The Electoral College is anti-democracy.

As of August 2025, 189.5 million Americans are registered to vote. That’s almost eight in 10 Americans who are 18 or older.

Among states reporting 2025 voter registration data, California has the most registered voters, 22.9 million, followed by Texas (18.3 million) and Florida (13.5 million). These states also rank highest in overall populations.

So, 22.9 CA+ 18.3 TX+ 13.5 FL = 55.7 million voters.

189.5 (Total registered) - 55.7 (CA, FL, TX) = 133.8 million voters.

So the thought that CA, TX, and NY alone can decide a presidential election is total BS.

The fact that several swing states can decide the presidential is total BS.

Yes, the US is not a democracy, it's a republic.....and that's the problem.

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fanuc2013 · 51-55, F

Because if it were the popular vote, the East coast and the West coast would elect the president. The rest of us would be wasting our time. The Founding Fathers recognized this and set up our system which has been working well for 250 years. When the Democrats lose, they start screaming for the popular vote. When they win, they want to leave things alone!

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Thinkerbell · 41-45, F

@missyann

"This is about Trump not the electoral college"

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Theyitis · 36-40, M

@fanuc2013

Because of it were the popular vote, the East coast and the West coast would elect the president.

As it is with the electoral college the president is elected by about 1% of the population in a few “swing states”.

Also, as it is right handed people elect the president. Maybe left handed people’s votes should count for extra since they’re a minority? Or people who prefer crunchy instead of smooth peanut butter? See, no matter how you do it there will always be some sort of under-represented minority in presidential elections. What makes people who live in sparsely populated states such a special minority group that we have to correct the system to give their votes extra weight?

If the president is elected by popular vote, it will be one vote for each person, no matter where you live or what color your skin or which hand you write with or how you like your peanut butter. That’s the fair way to do it.

missyann · 56-60

@Theyitis So this means that individual states no longer make up rhe “United States “. The Federal Government owns the country.

States will no longer have sovereignty to govern themselves. Examples, education, transportation, law-enforcement, gun control, healthcare. Ect…. As much as y’all love, Trump. You would absolutely love California New York having to follow the abortion ban and gun laws

I don’t think states are ready to give up their individual rights, especially those of you and blue states

Can you imagine the chaos it would cause every administration change?

Northwest · M

California and Texas are not really the problem. It's Wyoming, South Dakota, North Dakota and Idaho.

CA and TX get electoral voters roughly proportional to their population, but the latter get more and it's winner takes all.

The Senate is there for a good reason. The real issue is that we have a guy who figured out where all the loopholes are, and he's exploiting them to replace our system with a an authoritarian regime. But we still have an opportunity to foil his plan and plug the holes, so let's make sure we vote come November.

ninalanyon · 61-69, T

I agree that the electoral college is out of date. But given that the number of electors in each state is broadly proportional to the number of citizens in that state will fixing it have big effect on the results?

I would think that introducing compulsory voting would be a more productive use of time and effort.

JSul3 · 70-79

@ninalanyon That's why we have the House of Representatives, based on population.

IMO, there should be more than two Senators in states, based on total population.

ninalanyon · 61-69, T

@JSul3 Is a bicameral parliament actually any better than unicameral? Norway amended its constitution quite recently to abolish the second chamber. I think the grounds were that since the political make up of the two chambers was pretty much the same that it was just a waste of valuable political time.

JSul3 · 70-79

@ninalanyon And every Senator and Representative is elected via the popular vote in their respective states.

Thinkerbell · 41-45, F

If it were the Democrats who currently benefited from the Electoral College, you would be singing the praises of the wisdom of the Founding Fathers. 🤣

Rhapsodically. 🤣 🤣 🤣

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Thinkerbell · 41-45, F

@JSul3

And as usual, you dodge, not responding to the points I just made, and simply repeat the same tired old talking points that failed the Democrats November before last.

EBSVC · 41-45, T

It was a compromise created by southern states so they could count slaves in their population to get disproportionate representation to ensure slavery wasn’t voted away

And to this day it continues that tradition of letting the worst people imaginable who appeal to an increasingly small base maintain power against the will of everyone else

sunsporter1649 · 70-79, M

Yup, who cares if the people of Rhode Island are not represented in the election process

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sunsporter1649 · 70-79, M

@JSul3 That scared of the truth, eh

JSul3 · 70-79

@sunsporter1649 BS cartoons.
Are you not capable of typing out your own thoughts?

sunsporter1649 · 70-79, M

@JSul3 And that from someone who repeats verbatum everything that spills out of 430 South Capital Street Southeast 20003

missyann · 56-60

Doing away with the electoral college will allow CA NY and TX decide for the whole country. That will never work

JSul3 · 70-79

@missyann BS.
That's just not true.

Take every voter in CA, NY, FL, and Texas ....there are still more registered voters in the remaining 46 states.

Every vote will mean something.

With the EC many people believe their vote means zilch....and therefore voter apathy takes over.

Texas leads the nation in voter apathy.

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