The First Step to Fixing the Electoral College | Robert Reich
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Published 2023-05-09
Does that sound like democracy to you?
Here's how we fix the Electoral College.
If you want to know more or get involved, click the link below to read about the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact.
www.nationalpopularvote.com/
If your state is not already a member, I urge you to contact your state’s senators and reps to get your state on board.
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All Comments (21)
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UPDATE: Since we made this video, both Minnesota and Maine have joined the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact. That brings the total electoral vote count of each state in the compact to 224. We are getting closer and closer to the magic number of 270.
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Imagine not wanting this because you know you're never going to win the popular vote!
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The GOP will never allow this to happen. Only in America can two candidates lose by a combined three million votes and still be declared the winner.
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In a country that only has two parties, the fact that it isn’t a simple majority is astounding
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Another idea that I think should become more mainstream is ranked choice voting. This simple fix may not only ensure that the popular vote winner becomes the president, but it will effectively dismantle the two-party system and ensure accountability of elected officials, something we desperately need in this country. I would like to see more push for ranked choice voting.
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We also need ranked choice voting while we're at it.
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I'd love to see this become a thing nationwide. As a moderate-to-liberal person living in a red state, it sucks knowing that my vote for president doesn't count. But it's sad knowing that red states like mine will never, ever go for this because the only way a Republican can get elected president is through the antiquated Electoral College system. Aside from 2004, no Republican candidate for President has won the popular vote since George H.W. Bush in 1988.
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As a German with German voting rights, my opinion is: It would help if the electors of a state were no longer forced to choose the winner in the state, but voted for the candidates in proportion to how they performed in the respective states. So if candidate A won 30% and candidate B 70% of the vote in California, not all 50 electors should go to candidate B, only 33 to B and the other 17 to candidate A. There are a few states that follow this system of proportional representation.
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It's worth mentioning the right's continued obsession with restrictions on access to the ballot and a general tightening of voter laws.
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"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior justification for selfishness." John Kenneth Galbraith
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Maine just came on board with the compact within the past week.
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Jus found this channel but I’d be happy to become a citizen of Robert’s Reich
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All of us Non-Americans are baffled by how stupid and undemocratic that Electoral College thing is!
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I want popular referendums we should be able to vote directly on issues like reproductive rights, firearms and immigration
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I vote often. However, my presidential vote has not counted for the last 35 years. Literally thousands if not millions of votes do not have an impact on the election. I understand when our country was young the electoral system probably was the way to go, but in the modern era it is archaic.
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Please lets abolish electoral college
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The constitution doesn’t have political parties mentioned once, and this method is one of the reasons factions have become a fourth unchecked branch of government. Just as George Washington has warned us that it would.
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1 very important note is that the compact doesn't take effect until enough states have joined to have 51% of the electoral college vote. This means states can join and keep voting like normal until they hit 51%. It makes the burden to join much easier initially. Secondly I am glad he mentioned the democrats in Alabama. This is probably the thing I hate most about our system is that a vast majority of people's votes don't matter because they live in a state that always chooses the opposite party.
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If you're from Maine, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Minnesota, Nevada, North Carolina or Georgia. You better be calling your state rep right now!! We need to protect our democracy before it's gone.
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Listen to this guy. He is 100% correct in every thing he says.
