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>You might wonder: why would electing the President by popular vote be such a big deal? After all, this is how things are done in the United States (at least te
by omegaworks 5y ago
>You might wonder: why would electing the President by popular vote be such a big deal? After all, this is how things are done in the United States (at least technically).
The last two Republican presidents would beg to differ.
- JasonFruit 5y agoMore broadly, the electoral college is still a thing.
- kergonath 5y agoYeah. It really isn’t how it’s done in the US, technically or otherwise.
- dudul 5y agoThe people still vote, ergo "popular vote". The difference is that the US use indirect democracy with th EC as representatives. I think it's mostly the way we use "popular vote" in the US that is incorrect.
- kergonath 5y agoThe people don’t vote for the president, though, which is the point. They vote for electors, and sometimes the electors vote in the same way as the people. Reasonably often they don’t.