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Originally posted by FefeDobson
I don't really think the electoral college is really outdated nor useless, if it was the other way and Hillary won the electoral college and Trump won the popular vote we would all be clinging onto the electoral college.
The reason I don't think it's useless is because we would be basing off the presidential decision off of basically NY and California alone due to the insanely large populations. That's why the electoral college is intact. I don't know, I'm like 50 / 50 about it.
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This is false. Texas is the 2nd largest state and is consistently Republican. Florida, the third largest, is a swing state.
And yeah the electoral college is in place to give smaller states a say but to also prevent unfit candidates like Trump (literally NO political experience) from becoming president. If they elect him then what's the point anymore?