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Pete Buttigieg Insists Electoral College Overruled Popular Vote ‘Twice In My Lifetime’

Ashe Schow

Democrats running for 2020 either don’t know how the Electoral College works, or they think Americans are too stupid to understand it and are therefore playing on incorrect assumptions.

As I’ve written more times than I should have had to, America does not vote by a national popular vote. There are actually 51 individual popular votes (each state plus the District of Columbia). The Electoral College has existed since the Constitution was written and it allows more states the chance to decide who is president, instead of a few large cities getting to decide for everyone else.

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