The Founders saw our nation as being composed of sovereign states that voluntarily sought to join a union under the condition that each state admitted would be coequal with every other state. The Electoral College method of choosing the president and vice president guarantees that each state, whether large or small in area or population, has some voice in selecting the nation’s leaders.
Were we to choose the president and vice president under a popular vote, the outcome of presidential races would always be decided by a few highly populated states. They would be states such as California, Texas, Florida, New York, Illinois, and Pennsylvania, which contain 134.3 million people, or 41 percent of our population.
Presidential candidates could safely ignore the interests of the citizens of Wyoming, Alaska, Vermont, North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, and Delaware. Why? They have only 5.58 million Americans, or 1.7 percent of the U.S. population.
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When the Founding Fathers implemented the electoral college, there were only 13 states and the population gap between the most populated and the last populated was no where near what it is to day between California (37,250,000 people) and Wyoming (560,000 people).
The truth is kiling the emlctoral college wouldn't give the power to an bunch populated states. It would give it to the people, all the people. Because what we have now is a situation where the voices of republicans in California or Democrats in Texas don't count. Wether 1%, 25% or even 49% of people in California vote for the Republican don't matter, California will send 55 Democratic delegates to the eelctoral college.
Instead, because of the electoral college, the real power is the a 11 swing states (Arizona, North Carolina, Florida, Géorgia, Iowa, Nevada, New Hampshire, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Utah & Wisconsin) in wich presidential candidates spend about 90% of their campaign, ignoring states like Illinois, Washington, Kentucky, Massaschusetts or Indiana. These 11 swing states represent 27% of the US population. The presidential election is the hands of 27% of the US population, the rest of the country's population don't count.
During his campaign, how many of Trump Rallies were held in California ? How many of Hillary's were held in Texas.
Trump won Pennsylvania. 2,970,733 of Pennsylvania's voters choosed him, giving him 20 delegates.
Trump lost California. Yet 4,483,810 of California's voters had choosen him. Trump dindn't get any delegates from California
In other words, about 4,5 millions of Caliarnian voters were silenced. While about 3 millions of Pennsylvanians had their voices heard loud and clear.
This is why the electora lcollege should be killed, this is the big issues with the electoral college : it ignores the voices of democrats in red states and republicans in blue states