Maine just took America one giant step closer to ending the GOP's grip on our elections

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : From expanding the vote to include racial minorities and women, to amending the Constitution to allow for citizens to vote for U.S. senators rather than having them appointed by often-corrupted state legislatures, average citizens of all races and genders have been brought into the decisions around who will lead us.
57% : In response, he felt the need to protest to Elbridge Gerry that, "The first object of my heart is my own country.
42% : A criminologist explains why keeping Trump from the White House is all that mattersBut, because the Constitution also says that individual states can determine on their own how to assign their electoral votes, there's a way to get around the Electoral College altogether.
33% : Today we're horrified by the idea that Donald Trump may actually be putting first the interests of Russia and China, and that money and other efforts from multiple foreign entities may have helped him get elected.
32% : Hamilton never envisioned a day when a man so entangled in financial affairs with foreign governments as is Donald Trump could even be seriously considered, because, in his mind, the electors would carefully investigate the candidate.
29% : Since that compromise has been eliminated, the Electoral College continues to wreak mischief in putting George W. Bush and Donald Trump into office.
21% : Just imagine how different America (and the world) would be today if neither George W. Bush or Donald Trump had ever set foot in the White House because both lost the federal election, the national popular vote.
20% : America's Founders and Framers thought they could use the Electoral College to prevent somebody like Donald Trump from ever becoming president.
19% : He added in Federalist 68:"It will not be too strong to say, that there will be a constant probability of seeing the station filled by characters preeminent for ability and virtue."Unfortunately, as Donald Trump proves, things haven't worked out that way.
13% : Even though George W. Bush lost the 2000 election by a half-million votes nationally and Donald Trump lost in 2016 by 3 million votes, both ended up in the White House because of the Electoral College.

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