I do not think it favors Republicans. It simply favors population which means cities which means more liberal.
Trump winning 2024 was just stupid people mad about inflation, COVID, race, and Biden running gain. Yes they should have been mad about the lack options in the D side. The other issues were all fake. Inflation was solved a year before the election for example.
I think favor may have been the wrong word. My point was that the electoral college will be near impossible for Republicans to capture without Texas.
I think a popular vote favors the Democratic party because, well, theyre the more popular party. But if Texas truly has gone blue, I think the popular vote is Republicans only path to victory.
I agree with that. I also have concerns about the whole electoral process. The work around for popular vote would require us to know what the popular vote is. How does a state even know that in a “certified” way, and if it it really close, there is no way to do a nation wide recount. There are a lot of practical issues with implementing nation wide popular vote. So I have reservations about this.
The other issue of course is the whole gerrymandering thing. The need to really have elections demand a 50% vote either by IRV or a separate run-off election to eliminate spoiler effects. There are tons of issues overall with our electoral system. One big issue is we have a system that empowers 2 parties and makes it difficult for those parties to have any meaningful competition at all.
I do not think it favors Republicans. It simply favors population which means cities which means more liberal.
Trump winning 2024 was just stupid people mad about inflation, COVID, race, and Biden running gain. Yes they should have been mad about the lack options in the D side. The other issues were all fake. Inflation was solved a year before the election for example.
I think favor may have been the wrong word. My point was that the electoral college will be near impossible for Republicans to capture without Texas.
I think a popular vote favors the Democratic party because, well, theyre the more popular party. But if Texas truly has gone blue, I think the popular vote is Republicans only path to victory.
I agree with that. I also have concerns about the whole electoral process. The work around for popular vote would require us to know what the popular vote is. How does a state even know that in a “certified” way, and if it it really close, there is no way to do a nation wide recount. There are a lot of practical issues with implementing nation wide popular vote. So I have reservations about this.
The other issue of course is the whole gerrymandering thing. The need to really have elections demand a 50% vote either by IRV or a separate run-off election to eliminate spoiler effects. There are tons of issues overall with our electoral system. One big issue is we have a system that empowers 2 parties and makes it difficult for those parties to have any meaningful competition at all.