(03-21-2019, 10:35 AM)homebiscuit Wrote: Regardless of argument, it can be agreed the electoral college in this last election prevented the federal government from becoming incorrigibly corrupted.

You also have to remember that there's more than one way to do a national popular vote.  If they did it with just a single round, plurality wins, like Mexico, Clinton would have won.  If they did it in two rounds, Trump and Clinton are probably the top two candidates and Trump probably wins the second round, because most of the Johnson voters would have chosen him over Clinton.  
However, if we went into it operating under France/Brazil type rules, either Trump or Bernie may have decided to run as an independent from the beginning, and no one knows what might have happened in that case.

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