(November 9, 2016 at 4:15 pm)Crossless1 Wrote: FaF is suggesting awarding the states' electoral votes in proportion to each state's popular vote. I'm very sympathetic to this idea. The way electoral votes are awarded now is an anachronism that goes back to the old days when people more closely identified as Virginians, New Yorkers, Georgians, etc. than as Americans. We shouldn't be conducting 50 fucking presidential elections every four years. It should be one national election either based on popular vote count or, if the EC is to be retained, on proportional awarding of the votes.
I'm rather surprised that the popular vote takes the backseat here. Far as the latest news go, Clinton would have won by a margin of give or take 200.000 in that category. Not a tremendous victory, but the people obviously favored her and yet the system hands Trump the presidency.