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Originally Posted by butterfly
An "obvious first step" on the path to where? Erin O'Toole and Hillary Clinton winning, I guess.
The point of not having that is to prevent strongly concentrated regional interests from winning elections.
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except the electoral college does precisely the opposite of that, it gives enormous power to regional interests, Presidents spend their time pandering to Southern or North Eastern voting blocks, if a President doesn't have to worry about any state or region at all, just has to worry about appealing to the most voters in the whole country that would firstly be the only actual act of democracy in the US, secondly encourage a moderate President of either party, and thirdly would actually allow the occasional independent if not to win then at least to scare the bejuses out of the establishment.
The ability to become President without a plurality encourages extreme positions