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John — I'm re-sending this urgent email from last Saturday to make sure you didn't miss it. Please donate whatever you can! — Robert Reich
Dear John,
In the 2000 election, George W. Bush won the White House despite losing the popular vote by 543,000 votes.
It happened again in 2016, when Donald Trump won despite getting nearly 2.9 million fewer votes.
And this fall, we’re staring down the barrel of another election in which Trump could win while losing the popular vote.
It's all because of the utterly senseless institution of the Electoral College. But friends, there is a solution that could save us from such an outcome in November. It’s called the National Popular Vote Compact.
The National Popular Vote Compact is a legal agreement among participating states to allocate their electoral votes to the winner of the national popular vote. Once enough states opt in to add up to 270 electoral votes, the Electoral College becomes irrelevant — and we’re already up to 205!
We only need 5 to 6 more states to reach the magic number of 270. Will you make a donation to help spread the word, get the truth out, and end the undemocratic Electoral College system before the 2024 presidential election?
The 2000 and 2016 elections, in which Republicans won the White House despite losing the national popular vote, have had incalculably destructive effects on the nation and indeed the world.
These two elections led directly to the far-right Supreme Court super-majority we have today that overturned Roe v. Wade, gutted of the Voting Rights Act, ended affirmative action, and more.
George W. Bush’s two disastrous wars in Iraq and Afghanistan killed an estimated half a million people while destabilizing global security and squandering an immeasurable amount of U.S. credibility around the world.
On top of that, the Trump and Bush tax cuts cost the nation more than $10 trillion to date. If not for those tax cuts and the cost of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, we would have enough money right now to end hunger and homelessness in America, provide free public college to every working family, accelerate the transition to clean energy, give healthcare to the 25 million Americans still without health insurance, and more — all while running a surplus.
Polls show that this election will once again go down to the wire and will likely be decided by a few thousand people in battleground states like Arizona, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and North Carolina. The rest of our votes are largely irrelevant.
But we have a great chance to end the senseless Electoral College system before the 2024 election. All we need is 5 to 6 more states to join the National Popular Vote Compact, and the current Electoral College fiasco will be sent to the dustbin of history. Will you chip in to help us make it happen?
Yes, I’ll make a donation to Inequality Media Civic Action to get out the truth and help end the undemocratic Electoral College system before the 2024 presidential election.
Thank you for helping us defend our democracy,
Robert Reich
Inequality Media Civic Action
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