15 states are trying to make the electoral college obselete

Re:15 states are trying to make the electoral college obselete by hyperpape on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @07:04PM (#20762867)

This is true, but I’m not sure having your vote count for a decade, then not count, then count again is all that much better. Note that going in to an election, the potential battleground states are usually known.

Some states haven’t been swing states for a long time, too.

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Re:15 states are trying to make the electoral college obselete by WarDores on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @07:12PM (#20762925)

I'm not sure what the correct answer is. Winning a national contest is always going to be about coalition-building all said and done. Trump changed the calculus on the traditional GOP coalition (going after unions -- once considered a Democrat lock), and won states he "shouldn't" have. Coalitions line up with states in a lot of cases. If Democrats started pandering to farmers (I can see this happening), the midwest might look different.

I don't see this as a "states not counting" problem as much as the issues that come up in national elections affect different populations in different ways.

If there was a national popular vote, there would still be people who feel disenfranchised because the candidates don't see their chosen issues as vital to their coalition.

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Re:15 states are trying to make the electoral college obselete by pishpash on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @09:07PM (#20763693)

We're witnessing a party re-alignment in real time.

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