Democrats despise the electoral college. Perhaps they should get over that

latimes ^ | 07/14/2023 | DAVID LAUTER

[ChicagoConservative27]

WASHINGTON — Traumatized by the results of 2000 and 2016, when Republicans George W. Bush and Donald Trump won the presidency despite getting fewer votes than their Democratic opponents, many on the left and center-left have developed a deep aversion to the state-by-state counting of electoral votes, regarding it as both anti-democratic and anti-Democratic. A Gallup poll taken in 2020, for example, found that roughly 9 in 10 Democrats favored abolishing the electoral college and choosing the president solely on the basis of who gets support from the most voters. Just 2 in 10 Republicans agreed.

Responding to that sentiment, lawmakers in 25 states — most of them with Democratic majorities — have voted for an interstate agreement designed to bypass the electoral college and choose the president by popular vote. It won’t be in effect for 2024, but could be by 2028.

[IrishBrigade]

‘Very typical of Democrats to prefer mob rule over a constitutional process’

if the pubbies had the same ability to win the popular vote as the dems, they’d want to do away with the EC as well...

if you want to jiggle the EC, do away with winner take all primaries...

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There is a graphic at Wikipedia but it doesn't reproduce here.

With the exception of the Carolinas, Wisconsin, Alaska, and Arizona (and possibly Michigan and Minnesota if we really stretch things), those states are all likely to go Democrat .

It would be strange to see New York, California, Massachusetts, Vermont, Connecticut, Maryland, Illinois, Oregon, Washington, Hawaii and DC electors forced to vote Republican, but knowing Democrats, I don't think they'd do it.

[sauropod]

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[Jacquerie]

The wisdom of our awkward Electoral College (EC) goes far beyond the matter of relative electoral weight between urban and rural voters. Thank the Framers for doing more than diffusing presidential votes across our vast nation.

They designated electors to each of the three political branches with the purpose of each institution in mind. As opposed to the House and Senate, whose members know their employers and thus whom they must satisfy, the Framers’ President was unbeholden to the people-at-large, states, Congress, faction, or collection of factions – what we know as political parties.

Our Remarkable Electoral College.