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Michael Dukakis calls for end to Electoral College

By Jacqueline Klimas
Published November 13, 2016 6:26pm ET
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Michael Dukakis calls for end to Electoral College
"Hillary won this election, and when the votes are all counted, by what will likely be more than a million votes. So how come she isn't going to the White House in January?" Michael Dukakis said. (AP Photo/Steven Senne) | Steven Senne

A former Democratic presidential nominee is calling for the Electoral College to be abolished after Hillary Clinton won the popular vote, but still lost to Donald Trump.

Michael Dukakis, who lost to George H.W. Bush in 1988, told Politico that the Electoral College “should have been abolished 150 years ago.”

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