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Electoral College Gives Trump and the GOP a Boost - The Atlantic (Nov 23 2018) <Click-to-Tweet>
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The Electoral College Conundrum There ’s no consensus on abolishing the Electoral College, which has countered the popular vote in two of the past five presidential elections. Four times in American history, the candidate who lost the
popular vote has won the Electoral College. And that is not the case under the Electoral College system. ” Some, like Bayh and his allies, support a direct popular vote. ( The overall statewide winner takes the state ’s two remaining
electoral votes when electoral votes are allocated by district. ) Instead, it ’s large swing states that receive both visits and, Are there arguments for the Electoral College?
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