If this November again one presidential candidate wins the popular vote鈥攂ut the other the Electoral College and thus the US presidency鈥攖he political damage would be 鈥渟ubstantial,鈥� a group of political scientists from the Universities of Rochester, Chicago, Stanford, and Dartmouth College argue in a .
The , among them , a professor of political science at the 人妻少妇专区 and 鈥�97 (PhD) of Meliora Research, has banded together as , a nonpartisan watchdog group that regularly surveys experts and the public on the health of US democracy. The team discovered that, in particular, Democrats would find the process 鈥渓ess legitimate.鈥�
In an analysis for the , the authors point to their , according to which Americans overwhelmingly embrace the principle that all votes should count equally. They write that for a candidate to win the most votes but go on to lose the election鈥攙iolates this principle.
Yet, in the last five presidential elections precisely this happened twice (Gore/Bush and Clinton/Trump). Analyses this summer by some political observers (for example, the and ) indicate that President Donald Trump may lose the popular vote to Democratic candidate Joe Biden but win the Electoral College.
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