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This proposal calls for popular vote to determine winner

Clip: 11/6/2016 | 7m 4s

This proposal calls for popular vote to determine winner

Four times in U.S. history, the winner of the nationwide popular vote has lost the Electoral College and the general election. But a proposal called the “The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact” would automatically allocate participating state’s Electoral College votes to whoever wins the national popular vote. Hari Sreenivasan reports.

11/06/2016 | Rating NR

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