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Originally Posted by Goofle
If the election was based on a popular vote then the whole system would change and the process of trying to gain votes would be different. There's no saying which candidate would have won the popular vote if that was the basis.
And I'd imagine plenty more people would actually bother coming out to vote. For example, the republican turnout in California would increase quite significantly considering they aren't battling the electoral college.
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Or y'know, you can just completely dismiss the fact that California, Oregon and Washington are always Dem states.