• Tedesche@lemmy.world
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      20 hours ago

      The electoral college was put in place to prevent people like Trump from being elected, so it’s not even functioning as intended.

    • TheseusNow@lemmy.zip
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      Exactly, the whole winner take all deal means not a single presidential vote I have made ever meant anything. The majority of electoral votes in my state were for the other party. So my preferred parties electoral votes won magically become the other parties. If they forced states to split electoral votes places like Texas and California would have a much different impact on elections.

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      1 day ago

      That’s not what gerrymandering is, no. Words have meaning.

      Not to defend the electoral college, it should be abolished.

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      It might feel that way, but gerrymandering is specifically for the House of Representative districts. It has no bearing on the outcome of presidential elections.