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Election Reform

Mister Ed

(6,443 posts)

3. Yep. "It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing".

Reply to kacekwl (Original post)

Thu Oct 10, 2024, 09:00 AM

Oct 2024

If your state's not a swing state, then it will be largely ignored by presidential campaigns. (Which, at least, will spare you the barrage of awful TV ads.)

My faint hope is that technology will enable a broad redistribution of the population, making the Electoral College more reflective of the popular vote. That, in turn, would make it possible to do away with the Electoral College via constitutional amendment.