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Originally Posted by madpaddy
Exactly. You can't look at these results and say "if it weren't for the Electoral College, Hillary would have won." Maybe, but maybe not. The rules of the game influence how the players play. In a "popular vote winner takes all"' scenario, the candidates would have campaigned differently and many voters would have voted differently. I know I would have voted differently.
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That's exactly what I was going to post. The entire campaign process, voter turnout, and final election results would have been DIFFERENT if we operated with a popular vote system.
But we don't!! It is completely disingenuous to take the results that came about from our Electoral College based election process, and then try to apply those results to a different system. The argument that some are trying to make is completely irrelevant, and demonstrates an embarrassing lack of logic or understanding of our election process.