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Originally Posted by kane
Isn't his tweet a perfect example of why we need to do away with the electoral college? People who are for the electoral college say that we need it otherwise some states will be ignored, but here we have Trump saying outright that he ignored some states because he knew he couldn't win them, however, if there were no electoral college he would have campaigned in those states.
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1. winner of the election didn't win popular vote only 5 times in the past few hundred years, so it happens pretty rarely
2. what would stop a single state from dominating the election? for example, what if California decided that they will enforce voting laws only very loosely, or not at all... letting people vote multiple times, letting ineligible voters vote, etc... as a result millions of additional votes would be cast for California's preferred candidate... as is, the damage is limited to 55 electoral votes... if we base elections on popular vote, California could exaggerate the results by millions of votes... tilting the election in their favor each time...