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It's in the Constitution. If you don't like the Constitution: --amend it. --call for a Constitutional Convention. These are the agreed methods to change the document. "End runs," state compacts and attempts to game the system are unconstitutional and doomed.


Winner take all is not in the constitution. When states started arranging their elections this way in the early 1800s, the chief creators of the Electoral College Madison and Hamilton, called it an abomination and sued, and when that failed, tried to amend the constitution to get rid of winner-take-all.

The constitution says that states can apportion their votes however they want. If they want to give them to the national popular winner, that's their prerogative.




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