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Originally posted by DeltAlum
There is a movement afoot in Colorado to end the "Winner take all" situation regarding delegates to the Electoral College, and doing it by actual percentage of the popular vote.
That way, it wouldn't be possible (at least in theory) to win the popular vote and lose in the Electoral College process.
My question is why hasn't it always been that way?
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For one thing, it forces Candidates to really run their campaigns on a state by state scale rather than on a national one. I guarantee you, if we go to a popular vote, states like Oklahoma, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, etc. with smaller populations will cease to matter. Everything will concentrate even moreso than now on California, Florida, etc.
I'm a big fan of the current system. I don't really think it's broken.
But, I'm sure that candidates would cease to campaign as hard in Colorado if this happened due to the fact that they could almost count on it being around a 50-50 split instead of an important block of votes.
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