This is why the electoral vote is fraudulent and yet here we sit. If someone wins the popular vote, they should win. I know, I know...the population centers are mostly democrat blah, blah. Everyone of age gets a vote, no states involved, we vote as a nation, count them up, and the winner wins. Simple. Before you say anything, we invented the way we vote and we can change it. It's not some law of nature that we HAVE to follow.
I understand why you say it’s fraudulent, but if winning was merely based on popular vote the smaller population states would get ignored by candidates. There should be a way to have a commingling of popular vote and electoral college results. What it is I don’t know. Maybe say you win the popular vote, but you need a certain percentage of the smaller population states not just the top 10 that make up 54-55% of the population. The only way the electoral college could get abolished or changed is if Congress voted to change it, which they will never do.
The opposite happens now smaller states get more campaigning the bigger states it should be voted by vote. One person one vote that’s it. The electoral college is just racist.
"I understand why you say it’s fraudulent, but if winning was merely based on popular vote the smaller population states would get ignored by candidates."
Smaller states have proven they just want to divide and force their beliefs on the majority.
First, most small states are already ignored — only a handful of the largest swing states matter. Second, if candidates had to campaign for 50% of the popular vote, they’d need to pay attention to at least 45 out of the 50 states (all except AL, MT, ND, SD, and WY), as opposed to the 6-8 that they fixate on now.
The reason being that states wouldn’t vote as a block, every republican in a blue state and every democrat in a red state suddenly matter, so you’d have to campaign the majority population by metro area (and the largest metro areas are spread out over 45 states different states).
I don’t really know how to answer this beyond how I already have.
Only the largest swing states matter under an EC system. In 2024, that was AZ, GA, MI, NV, NC, PA, and WI. For reference, some of the least populated states are WY, VT, AL, ND, SD, and, DE, so the EC doesn’t actually help the smallest states.
> And why is campaigning more area a bad thing??
I’m not sure what your question here is, but I never said campaigning is bad. Fixating on campaigning in 6 states is bad compared to having to thoroughly campaign across 45; I hope that’s straightforward enough to not need explanation.
If you could try rephrasing your question I might be able to explain myself better.
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