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The Electoral College: Keep or Replace? A Soho Forum Debate
The Soho Forum Debates
The Problem With Swing State America
The swing states, the states with power in our system, just happen to be the states where the parties are so close that it could go either way. We have outsourced the selection of our president to these states. Most of the nation does not matter to this president or any president because most of the nation doesn't drive his or her election strategy. The logic of winner take all drives the candidates to appeal to swing state America. If they want to do better in a national popular vote system, speak in ways that persuade the majority of America to want to vote for you. Talk about issues that most Americans want to believe in with you and you have a good shot at winning. That's
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