pickFeel like your vote for President doesn‘t really count b/c of the Electoral College? You‘re not wrong. And Wegman explains why. More importantly, he explains what‘s happening to make every vote count equally towards electing our Presidents. This is a bipartisan effort and book (which you know is rare for me). Very approachable if you‘re not much of a political reader. 4/5 stars
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BarbaraTheBibliophage Counting this as my #aboutelections choice for #nonfictioncallenge2020. @Riveted_Reader_Melissa 4y
MsMelissa I‘m not American, so as an outsider I can say that I don‘t understand the U.S. Electoral College system at all. But our system isn‘t perfect either. Our current Prime Minister‘s political party lost the overall popular vote in our last election, but still won more seats in the House of Commons so they‘ve formed a minority government. 4y
Kimberlone I live in Alaska and this could not be more true. We only get 3 electoral votes AND by the time polls close at 8 pm, it‘s already midnight on the east coast so the outcome has already basically been decided. I 100% believe that it should be one man, one vote. The politics of changing the electoral college has nothing to do with it, it‘s just plain unfair. 4y
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BarbaraTheBibliophage @Book_Fiend_Melissa I think a lot of the various worldwide electoral systems are wonky. But yours and mine (usually) are still better than authoritarian regimes. I‘ll take it! 4y
BarbaraTheBibliophage @Kimberlone Agreed. We do this one person - one vote for every other type of election. States have to make changes to how their electoral votes are awarded (to the national@popular vote winner). The process has started it just needs to keep moving forward. 4y
MsMelissa So true! Personally, I‘d like to see Canada move to a proportional representation system. 4y