Thanks for inspiring my novel.

I know where I stand. It's simple. With the Electoral College, a very few states (the swing states) like New Hampshire, Colorado, Iowa, Florida and Ohio would dominate every election. The interests of the vast majority of states would be ignored. 4 or 5 campaign stops and the presidential candidates would be done. The rural food producing states would basically shut down while the swing states would eat the nation onto oblivion. Hey, wait, this is a good idea for a novel. Don't steal my idea, please.

Thanks for inspiring my other novel.

wtf?

That argument is tired. As it currently stands, they only campaign heavily in states where it's always close, which tend to be mostly the same states every election. Basing it on the popular vote means they'll have to focus on undecided voters everywhere instead of just in the few places it makes a difference. On top of that, smaller states matter more, because the electoral college isn't quite proportional, which is bullshit.

It's a relic of the idea that the states were going to be much much much more autonomous than they are. There's no place for it in modern America.

Ugh bo stop undermining my point by agreeing.

Stop tempting me to +1 you. You know it's not gonna happen.

Electoral College isn't about popular vote or democracy. That's a good thing ;)

I'm all in favor of abolishing democracy, but it has to be done in a way that gives me more power, not less.

Since corporations are people, why cant they run for President? Can you imagine if your choice for President was Trump vs. Home Depot

These videos debunked common misconceptions I had (already trotted out above) about the E.C.
http://www.cgpgrey.com/the-electoral-college/

Step 1) fix electoral districts to be drawn in an unbiased manner
Step 2) congressional district method of counting electoral votes

That's proportional. Fixed your problem and maintained the Electoral College

Or just like... idk, change the swing states. Fuckin Florida doesn't know what's good for itself.

Yes let's do away with the concept of federalism Ghug.

States are relevant and of course we should keep the electoral college.

Although I think electoral points should be awarded based on congressional districts like in Nebraska and Maine for the entire country. I think that would make things more fair.

Republicans tried that: its called redistricting. It was found to mostly be voter suppression. In many states they added harsher voter ID laws. (Gee why?)

And it changed the numerical values not significantly but some. Its also known as Gerrymandering.

(The party in power of whichever state is going to redistribute, it's just that Republicans have dominated state legislatures in recent years.)

Meh. Electoral college or popular vote will, generally speaking, be fairly close. Only once in a rare while will they produce different winners. And then, when the country is fairly divided 50/50.

Tempest in a teapot.

Gore v Bush I think Gore won popular vote by 1 million people.

That's less than half a percent of the population at the time.

And it was half a million, not a million. A lot, but a little at the same time. The only reason Gore was even in contention in that election in the first place was because of the flawed Electoral College that gave him enough votes to compete even though he carried 10 fewer states.

I just tend to think that the system is good because the rural states have more weight in the election and they tend to have more resources(with exceptions). Not having the electoral college would be like having a business that let's the customers determine production and price of the product.

Harsh laws? Yes let's get rid of all forms of ID including driver's licenses because it is harsh. Wow.

The Supreme Court already ruled against voter ID laws. Get over it.

He didn't mean like drivers licenses. He did specifically say voter ID laws, which were very stringent. Though his own point is off on an unrelated tangent itself.

This whole argument would be completely moot if electors were free to choose the best candidate for president (as the framers intended) instead of being robots who are forced to vote according to the results of the beauty contests in their states.

Unbinding the electors could also theoretically get us a president out of this election that is neither of the evil, corrupt, maniacal, and wicked sociopaths the two ruling parties have shoved down our throats this year.

No voter IDs opens us up to voter fraud. We have already seen issues with fraud from the Dems this week.

That works too tbh