The First Step to Fixing the Electoral College | Robert Reich

Swing state voters will have more say over the 2024 election than the 80% of Americans in other states.

Does that sound like democracy to you?

Here's how we fix the Electoral College.

If you want to know more or get involved, click the link below to read about the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact.

If your state is not already a member, I urge you to contact your state’s senators and reps to get your state on board.

[RBReich]

UPDATE: Since we made this video, both Minnesota and Maine have joined the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact. That brings the total electoral vote count of each state in the compact to 224. We are getting closer and closer to the magic number of 270.

[brianzembruski]

Imagine not wanting this because you know you're never going to win the popular vote!

[papabare]

The GOP will never allow this to happen. Only in America can two candidates lose by a combined three million votes and still be declared the winner.

[wickedphantm]

This is such a good take. Anti popular vote arguments are always "but then only a handful of states would always decide the winner." But as he points out, that's already exactly what happens.

[ajinkyamate]

Another idea that I think should become more mainstream is ranked choice voting. This simple fix may not only ensure that the popular vote winner becomes the president, but it will effectively dismantle the two-party system and ensure accountability of elected officials, something we desperately need in this country. I would like to see more push for ranked choice voting.

[SeeMick]

In a country that only has two parties, the fact that it isn’t a simple majority is astounding

[-OSwords]

This is only part of the problem. We need RANKED CHOICE VOTING & MORE THAN 2 POLITICAL PARTIES.

[paulmanly]

Man, this would be a real... Game Changer. I hope this video Never Stops Blowing Up. People should really Make Some Noise about this.

[CuriosityRover]

We also need ranked choice voting while we're at it.

[dx]

I'd love to see this become a thing nationwide. As a moderate-to-liberal person living in a red state, it sucks knowing that my vote for president doesn't count. But it's sad knowing that red states like mine will never, ever go for this because the only way a Republican can get elected president is through the antiquated Electoral College system. Aside from 2004, no Republican candidate for President has won the popular vote since George H.W. Bush in 1988.

[miketimofeev]

Can we also acknowledge the fact more people would go out and vote, knowing that whether their State swings Blue or Red won’t matter anymore, and instead their vote will count towards the greater total. Personally, as a CA resident, I’ve never voted because I already know the outcome of my State well before the election

[bobbyshort]

I vote often. However, my presidential vote has not counted for the last 35 years. Literally thousands if not millions of votes do not have an impact on the election. I understand when our country was young the electoral system probably was the way to go, but in the modern era it is archaic.

[paulrevelli]

It's worth mentioning the right's continued obsession with restrictions on access to the ballot and a general tightening of voter laws.

[homyce]

All of us Non-Americans are baffled by how stupid and undemocratic that Electoral College thing is!

[lamontcranston]

Much easier (and better) would be to award delegates proportionally to the popular vote and get rid of the winner-take-all system in 48 states.

[BruceTitus]

Maine just came on board with the compact within the past week.

[hezigler]

"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior justification for selfishness."
John Kenneth Galbraith

As a German with German voting rights, my opinion is: It would help if the electors of a state were no longer forced to choose the winner in the state, but voted for the candidates in proportion to how they performed in the respective states.

So if candidate A won 30% and candidate B 70% of the vote in California, not all 50 electors should go to candidate B, only 33 to B and the other 17 to candidate A.

There are a few states that follow this system of proportional representation.

[Simon_the_penguin]

Jus found this channel but I’d be happy to become a citizen of Robert’s Reich

[gcgkybg]

This is not democracy. Everyone's vote should have the same value.