r/Political_Revolution Nov 08 '24

Article An Anti-Trump protest in Chicago.

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u/kjm16 Nov 08 '24

Why isn't there more effort to bring attention to the fact that we need a constitutional amendment to abolish the electoral college? People everywhere wouldn't have an excuse to be apathetic if every vote did matter.

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u/Kyrthis Nov 09 '24

Dude: he won the popular vote. That would not have changed anything. I mean, maybe, it would have resulted in a Clinton presidency, or even a Gore one. But, we’re talking about the future, and the future is voter turnout for the Dems.

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u/Kingman9K Nov 09 '24

we have no way of knowing how many people who would have voted for Harris stayed home because they felt their vote wouldn't have counted, either because they lived in a safe blue state they she was going to win anyway, or a safe red one they knew she wouldn't.

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u/kjm16 Nov 09 '24

That's the point. If the people in highly populated areas voted more there would never be another hard-line conservative president. Electoral college makes someone in a blue state say fuck it and not even bother to vote for local shit. Slow and steady progress is better than the negative progress we are seeing with this apathy, Dudes.