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What I don't understand is when Gore lost even though he obtained the popular vote, why didn't the Dems from that day on push for the change? Now they're crying[0] again and it's just stupid. This is possible because of the way our election system works. Don't like it? Change it!

[0] Don't misunderstand, I'm not a Trump fan. Nor was I an HRC fan.

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"A reform of the Electoral College system would require a Constitutional amendment, and to get a Constitutional amendment passed, it’s necessary to have support from two-thirds of the House and the Senate, or two-thirds of state legislators. That’s an incredibly difficult task, and the Republican party currently holds a majority in both the House and the Senate and state legislators, making it quite unlikely to happen. After all, the party in power has little incentive to change the system that got them there in the first place."

Republicans will pretty much never go for it. They are required to get it passed

The solution is to get a time machine, go back to 2008 when the Republican party was on the decline ("a regional rump party, confined to the South") and make the change from a position of power.

They did push for change. [1]

What is left now, is to primary the hell out any Democrat that doesn't support it.

The left would benefit by looking at how the Tea Party solved the problem of losing the Presidency, Senate, and Congress.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Popular_Vote_Intersta...

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