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Majority of Americans continue to favor moving away from Electoral College (www.pewresearch.org)
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65% of U.S. adults say the way the president is elected should be changed so that the winner of the popular vote nationwide wins the presidency.

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[–] PizzaMan 15 points 1 year ago

So then you agree that it is a terrible idea for our votes to be weighted based on where people live, so that we can avoid things like individual cities swaying the vote?

I think so too. Everybody's vote should be equal, which is why we should have a popular vote instead of the electoral collage.