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Phlegmish posted:Agreed. Winner takes all is one thing, but I never quite understood why the US uses electoral districts (mostly corresponding to states) for straightforward presidential elections to begin with. There's absolutely no reason, and it just leads to these absurd outcomes where someone can be elected president despite trailing his competitor by millions of votes. The US was thirteen independent countries working out a supernational government. While Southern protection of slavery was a factor, the small states like Rhode Island were equally worried that entering into the union would allow Virginia to dominate them, so concessions had to be made to get them to agree. The electoral college was also supposed to serve as a final check to prevent failson princes from Europe coming over and buying their way to the presidency. Plus the problems with travel and communication back then that others brought up. Basically a bunch of stuff that made sense at the time, but now we're running a global empire on the text written to manage thirteen rural colonies huddled up to the Atlantic.
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