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Originally Posted by baddog
Because if the Electoral College was abolished candidates would not have to give a damn about the concerns of the residents of Alaska, Arkansas, Delaware, District Of Columbia, Hawaii, Idaho, Maine, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Dakota, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Utah, Vermont, West Virginia, Wyoming and a host of other states.
Win CA, PA, NY, FL, TX, IL, GA, MI and you skate in.
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In the same sense, many states that are solid red or solid blue don't get any notice either. Illinois has been blue for as long as I can remember, and that makes our state completely irrelevant in a general election. Same can be said for Mass., NY, and California. Those are probably four of the biggest and most influential states in the country in terms of business. Their votes literally mean nothing in November.
So what it comes down to is 5-10 swing states that get all the attention while the other 40 get nothing. John McCain will not step foot in Illinois, and won't give two shits about my state. Barack Obama won't step foot in Texas for that matter.
That leaves us with a vote in Florida being worth much more than a vote in Illinois. At least with a nationwide popular vote, everyone's vote counts as one. Right now, my vote counts as almost nothing while Florida's vote will impact the entire country.