We don't get around by horses anymore nor do we live by candle light. And that is how archaic the EC is.
I'm just wondering... Did you say that when Obama won? Or just when Dems Lose? It's interesting to me how every election cycle, the losing "side" screams about how archaic the EC is, yet nothing is ever DONE about it...
Ive been screaming, well not screaming but I have been against the EC and in favor of the popular vote for many years now. Everytime I bring it up on a forum I get the lecture about how the majority can not dictate to the minority and thats why there is an EC, the lecture usually comes from the left.
Even though my guy won,, ok, even though the evil one lost because of the EC and the United States was save from total destruction, I still say that the popular vote should be the deciding factor in any race.
Im guessing Bill is pretty dissapointed in not getting to be the first lady, I hear he had already had his dress made
Here is MY argument FOR the EC. The majority of voters live in urban areas. So, all a candidate would have to do is go to the biggest cities and convince the majority of those voters to select them. Now, that is all fine and good when you have a relatively small geographic area and relatively small population (such as a State). How ever, this country is HUGE, and has a HUGE population. Many of the same pitfalls that plague the EC system would be compounded if we went to straight PV. Take Hawaii and Alaska. They are both remote, and quite small percentages of the overall population, and thus carry few EC votes. If the EC where not used, then places like South Carolina,New Mexico, Rhode Island, Montana, and New Hampshire (just to name a few), having pretty small populations by comparison, would no longer be worth considering. All one would need to do is look at the following map, and secure the majority in the top 5-10 states and you would win. Even if you only carried those states by a small margin, you would have a high probability of victory, simply because you would win votes in other states by default with your message. One wouldn't even need to visit places like Wisconsin, Indiana, or Nevada to secure large portions of the vote in those places. Simply visit neighboring states and incorporate things into your message for those states you do not visit.
A much more equitable way of doing it, IMHO, would be to apportion the votes as Maine does. Look at this map from 2014 showing the results of the House elections:
As you can see few states vote as a bloc even in stronghold states like California, and New York. Now this wasn't a presidential election to be fair, however, I need to get to work and do not have time to find a better one. Interesting as this was my search on google: "2016 election results by district" then I selected Images and had to scroll down quite a ways to find this one even.