Lets get rid of primary elections when electing our president

[Angrboda]

When it comes to presidential elections, I favor an overhaul of the system that would do away with this ridiculous winner-take-all approach to a state's electoral votes. If we must maintain a vestige of the electoral college, then require that each state's electoral votes are awarded proportionately to the candidates based on their total of that state's popular vote.

At the least, it might motivate people who are perpetual political minorities in red or blue states to get off their asses and cast a ballot. It would also ensure that candidates would take states for granted at their peril.

^^-- This is exactly why my mother doesn't vote.  Her rationale is that if she votes Democrat then it doesn't matter because Oregon is a reliable blue state so she'd just be piling on.  If she votes Republican it doesn't matter because Oregon is a reliably blue state so her vote wouldn't make a difference anyway.

That precisely describes my situation last election. I wasn't feeling well in addition to that, but I rationalized not voting because I live in a heavily blue state, so ultimately my vote wouldn't have mattered.