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Bernie Sanders Backs Scrapping Electoral College after New Analysis Finds Entrenched Advantage for Trump in 2020
Newsweek, Jul 20, 2019, Asher Stockler

enator Bernie Sanders on Friday called for the abolition of the electoral college in response to a new analysis showing that President Donald Trump could win re-election in 2020 while still losing the popular vote by as many as five million ballots.

Trump won the 2016 election despite coming up nearly three million ballots short of Hillary Clinton in the popular vote. His electoral college victory in that race was still comfortable, as analyst Dave Wasserman noted in a new projection of possible discrepancies between the electoral outcomes and popular support in 2020.

Sanders has previously said that it's "hard to defend" the Constitution's current system for allocating electors, which heavily weights rural states and minimizes the impact of large urban centers, and had called for re-examining "the concept of the electoral college."

"The nation's two most populous states, California and Texas, are at the heart of Democrats' geography problem," Wasserman wrote in an NBC News analysis. "Both behemoths are growing more diverse at a much faster rate than the nation — owing to booming Asian and Latino populations — and are trending towards Democrats. Yet neither California nor red Texas would play a pivotal role in a close 2020 election, potentially rendering millions of additional Democratic votes useless."

The New York Times released a similar analysis on Friday, finding that while Trump's popular support could be slipping out of reach, his structural advantage due to the electoral college "may be even larger than it was in 2016."


More:  https://www.newsweek.com/sanders-electoral-college-trump-advantage-1450321


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Isn't that the way the Dems do their presidential nomination process? So many delegates for so much population in a given state?

What's wrong with it then? Why not scrap it for a most-votes-takes-all setup?
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Isn't that the way the Dems do their presidential nomination process? So many delegates for so much population in a given state?

What's wrong with it then? Why not scrap it for a most-votes-takes-all setup?

They want to dismantle the Constitution and our Republic and institute a totalitarian government.
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