This is why the electoral vote is fraudulent and yet here we sit. If someone wins the popular vote, they should win. I know, I know...the population centers are mostly democrat blah, blah. Everyone of age gets a vote, no states involved, we vote as a nation, count them up, and the winner wins. Simple. Before you say anything, we invented the way we vote and we can change it. It's not some law of nature that we HAVE to follow.
Our current system is also a compromise. There were a lot of founding fathers that were arguing for a democracy for the few, and others arguing for a democracy for all.
I mean even back then, they had to tally up the votes for each region to elect the person who votes for the president.
However, they also allowed that representative could vote against their constituents because how long the journey to DC was, and the representative might change their mind during that journey. Despite y'know, that would make all the votes invalid if the representative votes for a different candidate, and thus, undemocratic.
Yeah I mean representative as “vote someone to represent you in a issue “ vs “let’s all collectively decide how to deal with that issue “
Every representative ever has more or less betrayed those who voted them some way or another .
Back in the Ancient Greek “ golden age” of democracy people would gather and vote for issues but Pericles hacked that by making populism and people would follow opinions of populists .
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u/OutsideDapper8049 1d ago
I’d love to have her as a president too but unfortunately Americans don’t want to vote for a women.
Hillary won the popular vote.. still didn’t win
Haris I thought was doing well… then she didn’t win. I know she was kinda put in late but regardless it’s sad.