65% of U.S. adults say the way the president is elected should be changed so that the winner of the popular vote nationwide wins the presidency.

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    11 months ago

    Why should states have more say? We elect the president nationally. It’s not a state election, or it shouldn’t be.

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      11 months ago

      Because we have 50 of them and not 350 million. It’s a simple and effective way to get a weighted average.

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          11 months ago

          Because there’s a lot of people that don’t live in cities and they need different things from the people that live in cities.

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              11 months ago

              Literally every thread you have to argue with me. Are you doing that with everyone or just me?

              Aside from that, there’s things federal government can legislate against that the state will absolutely have no say in. I’m more left wing in my politics but guns, despite being a fundamental right seems most fought against by the left and fought for by the right.

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                11 months ago

                I don’t even notice usernames most of the time. Maybe I “have to” argue with you because you say a lot of disputable things. Turn down the paranoia a few notches.

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                  11 months ago

                  You have an average of a post/comment to Lemmy every 15 minutes over 3 months. You most certainly do not “have to” spend every waking moment of your day on here arguing with people. It’s unhealthy.

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                    11 months ago

                    When did I say I had to do anything? And if your job doesn’t give you lots of free time to kill, that’s not my problem.

                    Also, do you think I post when I’m asleep?