Posted on 10/13/2019 8:22:16 AM PDT by Libloather
The Republican Party is set to win a large majority of all future close presidential elections, even contests in which they lose the popular vote, according to a recent study.
GOP candidates for president can expect to be victorious in 65 percent of future presidential elections and University of Texas at Austin researchers analyzed why "inversions" — where the popular vote winner loses the overall election — has happened twice since 2000.
The study authors found that the Electoral College's winner-take-all approach favors Republicans and has pushed them to victories in 2000 and 2016.
The researchers concluded that inversions will occur more and more in 2020 and beyond unless a policy change completely dissolves, rather than reforms, the Electoral College.
The study released by the National Bureau of Economic Research last month...
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
I wonder what the "studies" showed regarding states like California. Would more republican voters turn out knowing their vote actually counted, versus, why bother voting, California EVs are going to the democrats?
Every single public servant has taken an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution
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And not ONE of them did on Usurpation Day, January 20, 2009
Yes go ahead and do it. I would like to remind these dems that if you abolish the electoral college you still would not add the votes of the all the states together. Why do they think that? The EC is NOT what keeps us from adding all the votes of the people from different states. We don't do that not because of the EC but because we are a republic of 50 states NOT a republic of people. If we eliminate the EC we would still be left with a 50 state republic who are electing a president to lead them. Get rid of the EC and what you have left is one vote for each state and the majority wins the presidency. Fine with me, I'm sick of NY and California having such influence over the election as it is. Get rid of the EC and each state gets just one vote. The democrats would not have a chance for the presidency for centuries if EVER. When do we get started?
A representative republic was opposed by the left from the 1800s.
It will been seen as righting an historic wrong. 'The right thing to do'.
So, what your saying is, the elitest democrats are the same slave holders they were 160 years ago.. Their plan is to enslave the working class of our nation..?? Sounds like agenda 21 to me...
Ben Fearnow, you just can’t make these things up. 8>)
The counties idea doesn’t make sense to me. Here in California Amazon County has less than $10K; Los Angeles has more than 15M. I think the Nebraska and Maine systems are the most fair: one EV vote for each congressional district carried and the statewide winner gets the 2 at large Eva for the state. I’d be willing to adopt that system and let the chips fall where they may. Any state can do this at any time. Which is what makes the abolish the EC guys hypocrites for not supporting this very democratic way of making “all votes count”
It’s stunning at the lack of perception on the democrat side. They think it’s the electoral college that is preventing them from winning. It’s the democrat platform that is causing them to lose elections.
I think the reality is for over two hundred years the American people have known better. Not so much anymore.
The second a Republican wins the majority vote the liberal will scream for the electoral college to be brought back.
Typical little children mentality: They lose, change the rules. They lose again, it ‘s just unfair, change it all back.
Its called the Constitution Lefties. You do not get to simply ignore people outside of your densely packed little enclaves.
Tough crap. There’s nothing you can do about it.
The system is in the Constitution. To change it, requires a long lengthy process.
And what the people of those states and any state considering doing away with the winner take all system need to know is that the overall effect of this is to water down the states influence on electing the President. If the electoral votes are close to an even split this system virtually nullifies the presidential vote of the entire state.
Overwhelmingly to them is any Republican victory. Last 20 Presidential elections are R 11 D 9. Hardly overwhelming more like close to an even split.
Do a search on ballot harvesting. That is why A bunch of republicans in southern commiefornia won on election night and two weeks later lost
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