"Romney wins popular vote but loses electoral college" at 5.2% on 538

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This will lead to the electoral college being abolished, which I want to see happen. Congressional district voting like Nebraska and Maine should be looked into for all 50 states.

Lol yes cause that happened in 2000...

The Republicans were planning on making a big stink if Bush won the popular vote but lost the electoral vote. Instead he lost the popular vote, didn't really win the electoral vote, but still became President, and the Democrats went around with "Kick me" signs on them.

[Nichlemn]

Might such a scenario cause Democratic states to back down on NPVC? Or would that seem too brazenly self-serving (especially in the case of ones that have already signed up)?

[Torie]

Yes, Ohio sucks.  Actually, I have sort of had that opinion since first year of college, when with my long hair and wire rim glasses, I Looked like a dope smoking hippie, and felt about as welcome there as I did in Luverne Alabama. Actually Luverne was better, at least after I told the gas station attendant that I was visiting the clan that effectively owned everything worth owning in the town.

[milhouse24]

I blame New Hampshire.  Those french canadians are always screwing things up.

[Linus Van Pelt]

Of course the polls will still change, any particular outcome is much less that 50% likely, etc. but still: when you step back a bit and consider what we were all thinking about the country's future in 2008, it's really quite remarkable that it's Oct. 13 2012 and it's a serious possibility that Barack Obama might be about to lose basically all of his new minority/suburbs rainbow-coalition states that everyone couldn't stop talking about, but get re-elected anyway because the national swing against him doesn't extend to the white working class within a hundred miles of Lake Erie in any direction.

[opebo]

This will lead to the electoral college being abolished, which I want to see happen. Congressional district voting like Nebraska and Maine should be looked into for all 50 states.

Lol yes cause that happened in 2000...

Well whether something is abolished or kept is at the prerogative of the GOP, not the Democrats, so if the GOP lost because of the electoral college, there'd be a chance they'd want to jettison it (though I personally think they'd want to keep it as over the long haul it favors them so much).

The Democrats have no power to change anything, they're just the 'opposition' to the real power..

[Silent Hunter]

It's a distinct possibility and one that really, really wouldn't be good for America.

[minionofmidas]

Of course the polls will still change, any particular outcome is much less that 50% likely, etc. but still: when you step back a bit and consider what we were all thinking about the country's future in 2008, it's really quite remarkable that it's Oct. 13 2012 and it's a serious possibility that Barack Obama might be about to lose basically all of his new minority/suburbs rainbow-coalition states that everyone couldn't stop talking about, but get re-elected anyway because the national swing against him doesn't extend to the white working class within a hundred miles of Lake Erie in any direction.

The best possible outcome of 2008, in a way.