Arguments made against the national popular vote for presidential elections amount to something like “smaller population states and rural areas will not have a voice in the election.” Who says we do now?
All indications are that just seven swing states will decide this presidential election. It’s important to point out just where the opposition to the popular vote comes from. Republicans have won the popular vote in presidential elections exactly once in the last eight presidential elections. That’s pretty pathetic. Their one “win” was George W. Bush in 2004, using the full weight of his incumbency, given to him by the Electoral College and the Supreme Court.
How much different would the world be if both George W. Bush and Donald Trump had never been president, including their wars, recessions, malfeasance, sleaze, bungling and lifetime Supreme Court appointees?
A country is made up of people and those people should elect the president.
Jeremy Smith
Old Orchard Beach
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