Actually, it is not. It completely works, to keep only one populous region from determining an election
Nonsense. 30 out of 50 states voted for Trump. Only 20 voted for Hillary. One region can not decide for an entire country, thus why the electoral college was put in place.
She lost even though she received three million more votes. If the Republicans want to pretend that the EC vote gives them some kind of mandate, right in the face of the popular vote, that's up to them. You'd think they would realize that losing the popular vote should at least be a mitigating consideration, but that has not happened.
The next elections are coming up, and we'll see how that worked out for them.
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But then only a few states are making this decision. Only 12 states actually have the power to decide an Presidential election today.
The system is broken.
With a PR style system, no one area of the country would decide, the whole country would decide together as a democratic unit, rather than some kind of "you've got three votes, but you've only got one, but it doesn't matter because neither of you actually matter anyway, so **** off" as exists right now.
No, actually, you're completely wrong there.
Here's a map of the US spending by the two main parties. You can twelve states. **** the rest of the states, they don't matter. You're in Texas? You don't count.
In the German Federal election 2017 it doesn't matter where you're from, your vote COUNTS. No one region controls anything at all.
This is a German map. In the Constituency vote which is FPTP like the US, the black party and blue party are the same, they're CDU and CSU (the latter being a sister party, the CDU doesn't run in Bavaria and the CSU doesn't run everywhere else).
The black party controlled most of the country. Bavaria, Baden-Wuettemberg, the former East Germany.
They gained 77% of the seats, even though they got 37.2% of the vote. Is that fair?
With PR, where a vote for a party counts no matter where you are, they gained only 246 seats out of 701 which is slightly more than the 33% of the vote they gained under PR.
No part of the country decides the election, the WHOLE COUNTRY as one decides.
The same would happen in the US.
In California 31.62% of people voted Republican. Their voice was drowned out by the 61.73% who voted Democrat.
Under PR their voice would not be drowned out, IT WOULD COUNT. Same for Democrats in Texas.
A little understand of the system will go a long way here.