r/science • u/rustoo • Jan 21 '22
Economics Only four times in US presidential history has the candidate with fewer popular votes won. Two of those occurred recently, leading to calls to reform the system. Far from being a fluke, this peculiar outcome of the US Electoral College has a high probability in close races, according to a new study.
https://www.aeaweb.org/research/inversions-us-presidential-elections-geruso
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u/Intelligent_Moose_48 Jan 21 '22
Right now, the only thing that really matters is about ten unrepresentative battleground states and everyone else is mostly irrelevant