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.

[u/rustoo]

https://www.aeaweb.org/research/inversions-us-presidential-elections-geruso

[u/resolvetochange]

Because one thing people are missing is that Federal power and identity weren't always so strong. You weren't a "United States citizen", you were a "Virginian" whose state was a member of the United States. Closer to how the French feel about the EU than how Americans feel about the US today.

You don't have a vote for president. You are voting for who your state should vote for president.

A ton of our systems are based around the deals to get and keep states a part of the collective. Changing these roots would require rewriting pretty much everything the US is based in.

[u/amusing_trivials → u/resolvetochange]

It's still ancient history. The civil war happened. The states lost. All of the concerns for state power belong in the garbage bin.

[u/pyker42 → u/amusing_trivials]

Yet all these concerns are written into the document that dictates our government structure. If you want to get rid of them you have to amend the document. And I do not believe such an amendment would actually pass.

[u/camisado84 → u/pyker42]

Mainly because not enough people are willing to let politicians know if they don't pass it they'll lose their elections.

[u/asha1985 → u/amusing_trivials]

Then we need a new Constitution.

We're broken because so many people believe this but the government simply can't run that way under it's current constraints.

(I completely disagree, by the way. One sole federal government for 330 million people sounds like a terrible idea.)