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[Ryantology]

Those are good reasons, it will affect the turnout I agree if governor elections are not held same year as presidential elections. But people should surely care about who their governor is, I mean a solid blue state like Wisconsin had two elections, a normal one and a re-call, and both were won by Scott Brown! How that can happen is totally beyond me, either the electorate just didn't care or they genuinely thought that a republican governor was the preferred choice despite voting overwhelmingly for Obama. Both options are confusing.

My best guess is that states which are solidly blue or red in Presidential elections do not have as much minority party turnout in the big cycles. Why go out and vote for Obama if you live in Mississippi, or Romney if you live in California? Those kinds of people are more energized when they are presented with local, winnable, elections and thus, will turn out to vote for a Senator/Rep/Governor where they would otherwise just sit at home and watch the other guy win their state.

This, for me, is the most compelling argument for getting rid of the Electoral College, though once Texas turns blue in ten or fifteen years, it's not going to matter very much because Republicans will never win a national election again once that happens.