Well, when you live as long as I have, you tend to have a lot more questions than answers. Sometimes you get an answer that doesn't make any sense. And sometimes you get the same answer over and over. It's still wrong.
In a popular vote dependent on nationwide individual votes, states wouldn't factor into it. Making the notion that 46 states would be slaves to the other 4 a total lie.
In fact, the electoral college already leaves enough room for key states to determine an election. They're called swing states. Fortunately, they do tend to shift from decade to decade. The electoral college only makes it easier to see for presidential candidates to see which states they should focus their attention instead of the entire country.
Heck, my main contention with the electoral college isn't even to do away with it completely, but to remove the winner take all option that effectively creates a two-party system in a government that is suppose to be a multi-party system. One of the reasons we keep having the perpetual pendulum swing of power between the last two parties standing. Both of them too big to be challenged and it's created this political divide that seemingly continues to widen.
That just isn't healthy for our country in my eyes.
But I know we hardly see eye to eye, Timber.
I don't see that as wrong. I see that as useful. It gives one perspective. One our country sorely needs.
