(November 9, 2016 at 12:58 pm)FatAndFaithless Wrote: The electoral college would work far better (not saying it'd be perfect) if we just got rid of the first-past-the post system. The fact that someone can win a state by less than 1%, but then gets electoral votes equal to 100% of its population is like saying that half the state's desires don't matter.
It's probably done that way to differentiate between the state and the country at the political level. I don't really see how the results would be different , though, if only that were changed. Supposedly if a politician got the more majority votes from all the States then that means most people from all the states combined voted for him.
What am I missing here?