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Should the electoral college be abolished?

The United States Electoral College is the mechanism established by the United States Constitution for the indirect election of the President of the United States and Vice President of the United States. Citizens of the United States vote in each state at a general election to choose a slate of “electors” pledged to vote for a party’s candidate. The Twelfth Amendment requires each elector to cast one vote for president and another vote for vice president. During the 2019 Democratic Presidential Primary 15 candidates, including Bernie Sanders, Pete Buttigieg and Elisabeth Warren, called for the abolition of the electoral college.

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Do you think it's fair that a candidate can lose the popular vote but still win the presidency?

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How would you feel if your vote in the presidential election felt like it didn’t count because of how your state votes?

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In what ways might the Electoral College help or hurt our sense of equal representation in elections?

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Do you believe living in a smaller state should give your vote more weight, or should votes be equal across all states?

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If the system were changed to rely purely on the popular vote, how do you think it would impact presidential campaigns?

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How would you react if the candidate you supported won the popular vote but lost the election?

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How much do you think the Electoral College system affects voter turnout in places where a specific party typically wins?

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Do you believe our current system takes state diversity into account fairly, or does it create inequality among voters?

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If the Electoral College was abolished, what concerns might arise for you about small or less populated states in elections?

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Is it more important to you that individual voices are represented accurately, or that the states themselves maintain political power?

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Trump’s Doom vs. Harris’s Hope as America Decides Its Fate

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