So?
Let me guess, you're going to try and make the usual Koch brothers paid for view of the election that if you have 10 people in one county, they should have the same amount of power as 10 million in another....
The simple fact is that the Republicans don't represent all those people who voted for them. A better system would see at the very least 6 different parties representing different interests.
Oh I agree on the 6 different parties part but yes the electoral college is to give equal representation to EVERY part of the country....all in all I think democracy sucks and prefer a system run by the strongest,most able etc. I prefer a dictatorship of course run by me but would be fine with a system where it starts at lowest level and each citizen votes for a council who then selects one of their own to move up to regional level to state and then is picked from there to lead country. Course I also believe in a country where its 1 people,1 view and 1 system for us all. All pushing for the same thing etc. You can read the links in my signature for a better understanding what I believe.
The EC does not give equal representation to every part of the country. (well would if I could actually post it. the link is below.)
A Campaign Map, Morphed By Money
This is an election map of money spent. It shows that 12 states get all the attention.
a couple of things
money is not the end all be all.. 2016 proved that bigly
second the ec was invented to make sure the population gets power and attention, not just huge cities, same reason for the senate existing. ca has no more power than iowa
No, it's not. The reason why I showed money is because it shows where people's interests lie. They spend money because they think it will buy them something.
The 12 states they spend money on are the places with the closest races.
Michigan, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin were the four closest states with 0.22% to 0.75% between the two main runners. Basically three of these four won the race for Trump. Had Hillary won these four states she'd have won the presidency.
Florida, Minnesota, Nebraska (2nd district), Nevada, Arizona, North Carolina and Colorado were those between 1% and 5%.
Ohio, Iowa, Virginia are other states that matter.
Nebraska doesn't get much money because it's 2nd district only gives 1 EC vote. So they ignore it. Arizona was closer than it probably would have been normally. Basically it's been Republican for a long while now. Clinton won there in his second election victory, just, but without Bob Dole he wouldn't have won, and the previous Democrat to win was Truman.
So, there are 12 states, more or less, which the candidates focus on. Wyoming has the highest ration of EC seats to population, and they don't give a damn. It doesn't spread over the country, it spreads over 12 states out of 50.