Reich writes: "It looks like Hillary Clinton is going to win the popular vote by a sizable margin. She now has a 2.4 million-vote lead. That's a margin of 1.8 percent. I suspect the final tally will be 2.5 million, giving her a margin of 2 percent."
Robert Reich. (photo: unknown)
The Dangers of the Electoral College
02 December 16
t looks like Hillary Clinton is going to win the popular vote by a sizable margin. She now has a 2.4 million-vote lead. That's a margin of 1.8 percent. I suspect the final tally will be 2.5 million, giving her a margin of 2 percent.
Clinton lost the Electoral College due to incredibly tiny losses in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Michigan. We don't know the results of a recount but at this point the cumulative difference in those states is just 107,330 votes. Think about that. 107,330 votes out of 135 million votes cast. 107,330 is about the capacity of a football stadium.
Now think about the damage Trump and his band are about to wreak on the nation.
Besides stopping all we can of this onslaught, we must also prevent anything like this from happening again. No more Electoral College outcomes different from the popular vote.
We can accomplish this without a constitutional amendment. Just get states to pass laws committing their electors to vote for the presidential candidate who wins the most votes in the nation as a whole. (See here.)
What do you think?
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