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What I don't understand is when Gore lost even though he obtained the popular vote, why didn't the Dems from that day on push for the change? Now they're cryin

• vkou 10y ago
  They did push for change. [1] What is left now, is to primary the hell out any Democrat that doesn't support it. The left would benefit by looking at how the Tea Party solved the problem of losing the Presidency, Senate, and Congress. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Popular_Vote_Interstate_Compact https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Popular_Vote_Intersta...
• cmac2992 10y ago
  "A reform of the Electoral College system would require a Constitutional amendment, and to get a Constitutional amendment passed, it’s necessary to have support from two-thirds of the House and the Senate, or two-thirds of state legislators. That’s an incredibly difficult task, and the Republican party currently holds a majority in both the House and the Senate and state legislators, making it quite unlikely to happen. After all, the party in power has little incentive to change the system that got them there in the first place." Republicans will pretty much never go for it. They are required to get it passed
  • coredog64 10y ago
    The solution is to get a time machine, go back to 2008 when the Republican party was on the decline ("a regional rump party, confined to the South") and make the change from a position of power.