Make Every State "Purple"

Every vote should count in the presidential election! The National Popular Vote plan would reform the current Electoral College system to make every vote equal. It has passed in Maryland, New Jersey, Illinois, Hawaii and a total of 21 legislative chambers.

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[TorreyDDixon]

We will never achieve a true representative democracy until everyone counts, every vote is counted, and every counted vote is equal.

[gcaj85]

I'm thoroughly entertained by how easily this ad diluted the real issue, even among viewers, such as yourselves, who appear to be interested.  I'm writing my final Poli-Sci thesis on why the Electoral College should remain, and a large portion of my research involved the NPV, which sponsored this ad. They ignore legitimate claims on the usefulness of the Electoral College and straw man those presented to them. And they will succeed, because no one cares enough or is informed enough.

[gcaj85]

Yes. States become representative of the minority national opinion.

[Danny Handelman]

In the case of the electoral college, it is designed to protect the "interests" of those who reside in swing states, who are the minority of the population.

[Pernaetova21]

I don't care which state is bigger.All I care about is whether or not smart people have just as much weigh in as the stupid people.

[Pernaetova21]

I get what you are saying but

i think with all of the other complications of life,

people today would rather have something that

is simple. I'm one of these people

[WorldNews92]

...In the states (25 electoral votes each), 5 of these electoral votes would be allocated to the winner of the state popular election. If the party got over 50% of the popular vote, they get all of these 5 votes; if they get under 50%, the largest party gets 3 of these 5 votes, and the 2nd largets gets the remaining 2 votes. The remaining 20 electoral votes are then allocated based on the percentage each party got in the state popular vote. Thus, electoral votes match voting preferences.

[WorldNews92]

As a Briton interested in American politics, I believe the best way to reform the Electoral College would be not to abolish it, but to make it more representative of votes. Firstly, there would be 1270 electoral votes (25 for each of the 50 states regardless of population, and 10 each for DC and Puerto Rico)...

[gcaj85]

@polskaisincommand Where a candidate chooses to compete isn't as important as preserving a legitimate form of minority protection via states' rights; I can't bring myself to your side based on a wish for campaign equality, or whatever you may call it.

[gcaj85]

The argument has nothing to do with tradition, it's actually about protecting minorities on the national level. By favorying democracy on a state-level, majority vote is applied to a national vote, which ultimately may go against a national majority; this protects against the masses, and it is designed to keep states from being pushed around against each state's majority interest.

[gcaj85]

The limit to comments is just under 500 characters; I don't think I can do it justice in a YouTube comment, but the basic idea is that the Electoral College protects national minorities from the mass sum of the population in the United States. If there are 2 states with equal population, one unanimously favors opposition to a marginal majority in the other, the more-evenly split state is protected. Sorry if that's too vague, but I'm out of space to write.

[strawberryseason]

Why don't you supply the readers with some of your arguments in favor of keeping the Electoral College?