Americans mostly back dumping the electoral college, i don't

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58. Dumping the electoral college doesn't eliminate representative government

Each state still gets rwo Senators, regardless of size or population. That’s why presidents get impeached but never convicted or removed. The House is not perfectly representative, but eliminating gerrymandering could bring it close.

In 2016, elimination of the electotal college would have given us President Hillary and probably the same Senate and House. A President Hillary would probably also not have encouraged Roger Stone to play his little tricks and bamboozle the Senate Democrats into trashing Al Franken. But that is a side benefit we wouldn’t even have known about if the electoral college had been abolished beforehand. House members are elected by getting the most votes in their district. Senators are elected by getting the most votes in their states. The President should be elected by getting the most votes in their states whole country. I like France’s system of a runoff a week after the general with the two top vote getters if no one wins 50% the first time. That way, no “Tea Party” or “Democratic Socialists” can hold the presidency hostage by threatening to withhold the presidency if they don’t get their way.