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ELECTORAL COLLEGE OVERWHELMINGLY FAVORS REPUBLICANS, ABOLISHING ENTIRE SYSTEM ONLY REMEDY: STUDY
Newsweak ^ | 10/12/19 | BENJAMIN FEARNOW

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 ...


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To: Stosh
It is kind of neat, however, that Republicans are favored in a republican structure, and Democrats in a mob-rule democracy.

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?

81 posted on 10/13/2019 9:30:25 AM PDT by Go Gordon (I gave my dog Grady a last name - Trump - because he loves tweets.)
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To: HangnJudge

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


82 posted on 10/13/2019 9:32:45 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Libloather

https://www.forbes.com/sites/ralphbenko/2014/01/13/are-todays-progressives-actually-totalitarians/#30ccc8d81684


83 posted on 10/13/2019 9:39:06 AM PDT by dragonblustar (I love reading Trump tweets in the morning.)
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To: HangnJudge
"Ok, just amend the Constitution have at it, knock yourself out"

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?

84 posted on 10/13/2019 9:39:32 AM PDT by precisionshootist
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To: Libloather

A representative republic was opposed by the left from the 1800s.


85 posted on 10/13/2019 9:45:02 AM PDT by KC Burke (If all the world is a stage, I would like to request my lighting be adjusted.)
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To: HangnJudge
In 3 or 4 generations when the Founding Fathers have been erased from history and their rational for the electoral college has been forgotten I can see future generations happily amending the Constitution without much thought.

It will been seen as righting an historic wrong. 'The right thing to do'.

86 posted on 10/13/2019 9:45:56 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: frnewsjunkie
"and the elite don’t work.. that’s for the banana middle west.. and taxes would go to the elite.. and they’d think it was a perfectly good arrangement.

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...

87 posted on 10/13/2019 9:46:13 AM PDT by unread (Joe McCarthy was right.......)
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To: Libloather

Ben Fearnow, you just can’t make these things up. 8>)


88 posted on 10/13/2019 9:47:04 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: Vigilanteman; Extremely Extreme Extremist; Maris Crane

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”


89 posted on 10/13/2019 9:49:11 AM PDT by j.havenfarm ( 2,000 posts as of 1/16/19. A FReeper since 2000; never shutting up!)
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To: Libloather

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.


90 posted on 10/13/2019 9:49:38 AM PDT by Dutch Boy
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To: Rummyfan
"For over two hundred years the Electoral College was never an issue. Then Democrats lose a couple elections and all the sudden it has to go. Interesting isn’t it?"

I think the reality is for over two hundred years the American people have known better. Not so much anymore.

91 posted on 10/13/2019 9:50:43 AM PDT by precisionshootist
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To: Libloather

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.


92 posted on 10/13/2019 9:51:13 AM PDT by CodeToad ( Hating on Trump is hating on me and Americans!)
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To: Libloather

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.


93 posted on 10/13/2019 9:52:11 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: Libloather

The system is in the Constitution. To change it, requires a long lengthy process.


94 posted on 10/13/2019 9:52:40 AM PDT by I want the USA back (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Orwell.)
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To: Libloather
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.

Why did the authors decide to ignore the 1992, 1996, 2004 and 2008 elections?

btw, on Feb. 9, 1825, John Quincy Adams who received less than 31% of the votes in the 1824 election, was chosen to be President by the U.S. House of Representatives, even though Andrew Jackson got 43% of the votes and the most electoral votes.




95 posted on 10/13/2019 9:56:20 AM PDT by Brown Deer (America First!)
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To: Libloather
No problem...a Constitutional Amendment would easily get 38 state legislatures to agree.
96 posted on 10/13/2019 9:56:26 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (A joke: Brennan,Comey and Lynch walk into a Barr...)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
"Only two states, Nebraska and Maine, do not follow the winner-takes-all rule. In those states, there could be a split of Electoral votes among candidates through the state’s system for proportional allocation of votes."

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.

97 posted on 10/13/2019 9:58:08 AM PDT by precisionshootist
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To: jeffersondem

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.


98 posted on 10/13/2019 10:00:06 AM PDT by xp38
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To: Libloather

99 posted on 10/13/2019 10:00:56 AM PDT by TADSLOS (You know why you can enjoy a day at the Zoo? Because walls work.)
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To: Ann Archy

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


100 posted on 10/13/2019 10:02:18 AM PDT by Cold War Veteran - Submarines
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