How big of a vote gap would it take for you to drop the Electoral College?

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(04-03-2019, 01:57 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote:   A pure popular vote POTUS election will see the vast majority of states completely ignored by candidates and if you can safely ignore an area and still et elected what incentive is there for you to address the problems being faces by the peoples of those areas?  If we're talking about compassionate people then there'd always be a humane reason for doing so, but forgive me for being a bit cynical about presidential candidates in this regard.

Under our current system, 68% of 2016 general election campaign events were in 6 states. Those states account for 21% of our population.

94% where in just 12 states (an additional 7%).

Iowa had 21 campaign events for their 3 million voters. New Hampshire's 1.3m voters got 21 events too.

So 94% of campaigning under the EC is done where 28% of the nation lives. 28% of the nation (25 states total) had no visits. The other 44% (13 states) got 24 total visits (6%). LOL, 144 million Americans had 3 more campaign visits than New Hampshire's 1.3 million. 92 million Americans had none. 

So what you're suggesting will happen if we have a popular vote already happens to an extreme degree because of the EC. 

Is it a surprise that Florida, which had the most visits (71), had more total voters than Texas (1 visit), even though Florida has 3/4ths the population? Yea, obviously New Hampshire may not get any visits now, but do they need 21 visits at the expense of 25 other states getting none?

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14Lxw0vc4YBUwQ8cZouyewZvOGg6PyzS2mArWNe3iJcY/edit#gid=0