Will we ever get away from the Electoral College?

[saje]

I know this topic has been done before, but not for a while and the US has changed mightily in that time.

I am not a political whiz by any means, so I don’t understand why we can’t just elect a president by popular vote.

Educate me, please.

[What_Exit]

Or did we?

In April?

Why is there still an Electoral College in 2024?

I know there are some existing threads on this topic, but it’s time to ask the question again. Why is there still an Electoral College in 2024? Who is in favor of the Electoral College and who is successfully keeping it from being replaced? It’s antiquated, and it allows a candidate to be elected President of the United States, they highest office in the land, without having a majority of votes in an election, which to me is undemocratic. The Electoral College may have made sense in the 18th C…

October

Let's discuss the Electoral College tying

I have no idea what is going to happen on election day. Too many variables and I don’t trust polls any more since 2016. Nobody seems to be taking the outcome that the EC ties very seriously and I disagree with that. Playing with the Electoral College Calculator I believe there is a chance it ties equal to the chance Trump wins and equal to the chance Harris wins. There are 4 very strong scenarios that it ties and a few weaker ones as well. The strongest is Trump wins/loses everything he did i…

July

Would you want the Electoral College to be proportional by state?

First of all, assume we are not going to a popular vote across the country. And the National Popular Vote Compact is not in effect. Second of all, feel free to make this about every state (& DC) or just your own. Third of all, there are two states that are kind of proportional but not really - Nebraska and Maine. A proportional vote would be assigning electors by the percentage that the candidates got so for example with 18 electoral votes and the following results Jack Johnson (R): 48% = 9 …