Does anyone else think that the Electoral College should be done away with and the popular vote should directly elect the president. It's like your vote in OHIO or FLORIDA, counts more than in NY or CALI. What is the point of that system, so you can get less than 50% of the popular vote and still win. So that politicians only have to spend money on ads in battleground states. I believe i have a solution though, and that is all the electors in the college should vote the way of the majority instead of how each individual state voted. E.G. Canditate A receives 60% of the popular vote so all the states vote for him, as Canditate B receives 40% of the vote he gets none of the Electoral vote despite carrying several states. I'm just saying it would be a more fair way to elect a president.

So then the people of California and NY would decide the presidency.

no the majority of the popular vote...get 50.01 percent of the vote (the actual vote) across the whole country....and that's who wins the presidency.

But thats the reasoning behind the electoral college so it would be more fair to the states that only have 500,000 people as opposed to those that have 36,000,000.

Basically most of your midwestern states would have no say in who the president is.

the founding fathers didnt believe that the people had enough information or education to be entrusted with deciding the Presidency. So they wrote in the Constitution that the states would provide electors to the electoral college "in a manner of their choosing"

It has become custom that the electors are chosen based on a statewide vote

to do away with the electoral college would require an amendment to the Constitution and would never in a million years pass