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Originally Posted by fixed_truth
In practice it does mean that as the majority takes all of a state's electoral votes.
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yes, just like an electorate in new zealand
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I'm saying that the popular vote is more representative of how the country voted rather than how they voted via the electoral college.
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It's not though. It's representative of how Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, and Houston voted.
Edit - which is of course exactly why the Electoral College system was put in place. There's no way the southern states were going to sign on to be part of this fancy new "United States of America" bullshit if every election depended on the popular vote; the big cities of the day were all in the north.