Do you think there's a problem when a candidate wins the electoral vote but loses the popular vote?
18 Answers to "Do you think there's a problem when a candidate wins the electoral vote but loses the popular vote?"
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With gerrymandering still legal in the vast majority of states, popular vote should be all that counts.
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yes it means we the people are not getting the votes we cast. how can the popular vote cast one guy as winner but the electoral vote says the other one won?? i thought we the people get to choose who we want.
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it has never been that way the founding fathers never had faith in the common manLike (1)
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It happened with Gore before... The Electoral
College is obsolete!
The President is ahead with the popular vote
and the Electoral College. 12:45am estLike (3)
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Yes I do. But it's what we do here.
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Yes a big problem. It totally discounts the will of the people, It had a good reason to be put in place 200 years ago but in this day and age it is totally unnecessary!
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Heartily agreed -- how do we get change past the Powers That Be? Need to fix gerrymandering also, and do something about those TV commercials and robocalls.
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I agree they should do away with the Electoral college
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Yes
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Didn't seem to bother Bush.
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True...but once again the popular vote would have benefited the country.
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Yes, but if thousands hadn't been "dropped" from the rolls we probably wouldn't be wondering about the popular vote.
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No the purpose of the electoral college is to keep things confusing for the electorate.
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The reason that the founding fathers created the Electoral College was because people weren't informed enough to make the final decisions. Now that we have the internet and T.V., I think we're informed enough to just ba
se the election on the popular vote. Like (2)
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They're never gonna get rid of it though, It's because California and New York are usually Democratic with a lot of electoral votes. They don't wanna loose one of the only things that has kept them winning.
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Umm, *well* informed by TV? Massively overinformed, blathered at, pushed into no-compromise partisanship, given sound bites when thoughtful comments on the really difficult issues come up. The intertubes, same or worse, almost everyone just listens to their own echo chamber. Don't know the answer, agreed that the EC has outlived its purpose. Don't know how to make it part of a fixed election system, either, not confident that natural error rates and gerrymandering will make the system more representative.
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it has always been this way make a amendment to the Constitution blasphemy I say and we need a lot of it
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Agreed, we need a lot of it. Other option is frustrated people tearing up the streets again, bad for business.
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WELL yes, but Gore won the popular vote in 2000, so I'd call it even now.
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It doesn't matter which party wins. This isnt sour grapes. I just think the popular vote should determine the election.
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They're still counting, it's not a sure thing that Romney won the popular.
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I didnt say he won the popular vote, but I do have an issue with this.
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Depends on who you ask. Liberals cried when Bush won the electoral vote and ***** (Gore) won the popular vote. Hmm I wonder what they think now that situations have reversed? HA not need to tell me I already know. :p
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we should rid the system.. unless my person is winning
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I do not feel the need to elect persons to maybe or maybe not vote my vote. That is just one reason I do not vote.
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Best Answer (Chosen by Voting):
Posted by countrycutie101 Nov 6th, 2012 at 10:55PM
the entire voting system is retarded. It should be popular vote across the board.
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