The question isn’t whether the American public would vote for a woman as president. In 2016, a woman beat her male opponent by almost 3 million votes.
The question is how much longer will the majority of Americans be willing to leave their vote for president up to the weak spot in the Electoral College, its state-by-state winner-take-all operating system.
Under winner-take-all, the closer the margin between winner and loser in a presidential race, the greater the odds of divergence between the electoral vote and the national popular vote. In 2000, 2004 and 2016, the popular vote margins between winner and loser were less than three percent. We know what happened in 2000 and 2016. But in 2004, if John Kerry had won another 56,000 votes in the battleground state of Ohio, he would have swept the Electoral College, even though George W. Bush took the national popular vote by more than 3 million.
So if you’re not OK with allowing the weather, natural disasters or election meddling to nudge the winner-take-all system of battleground states in favor of one candidate, visit www.nationalpopularvote.com to learn about the constitutionally legal method that’s 71% of the way to making the popular vote the only vote for president.
Bunnie Keen, Salt Lake City