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I think that time is here.
All this talk of "red states" and "blue states" states promotes regionalism and national disunity.
Most of the states lie on a continuum somewhere between the 60-40% range in one direction or the other. It's true that the difference between 60 and 40 is twenty, but if in a 60-40 state, only ten percent of voters (plus one) changed their minds, the election would swing the other way. Ten percent isn't that big.
In even the most conservative states, there is a sizable liberal population. And vice-versa.
If we went to a purely popular vote, I think turnout could skyrocket.
Even considering the huge turnout we had last week, there are multitudes of voters that don't turn out to cast ballots. And there are even more people eligible to vote, that never even bother to register, only because they are a liberal in Mississippi or Utah, or a conservative in Vermont or Illinois, and assume, with some justification, that their vote won't count.
Let's make everyone's vote count, and end the nonsense where maps with states painted in gaudy tints of red and blue make conservatives curse the "People's Republic Of Vermont," and prod ordinarily compassionate liberals to proclaim "fuck the South."
Let's end the Electoral College, and bring the country together as one.
And yes, I admit, I wish my vote for Barack Obama in Alabama had counted for something tangible.
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