Al Gore Calls for End of Electoral College

[muriel_volestrangler]

56. You're looking at states as monolithic entities

and that's the biggest problem with the use of the Electoral College as it is now. Nearly all states give all their EC votes to just one candidate, and so people talk about "winning this state" or "these states", even though there can be millions of people in a state who voted for a candidate who got no EC votes from that state.

With a system of electing the president on a majority vote basis, it wouldn't be states electing candidates; it would be citizens. Rather than candidates concentrating on swing states (is Arkansas often a swing state? Do you feel that your vote for the Democratic candidate since 2000 has had the remotest chance of getting the Democrat an electoral college vote?), candidates would concentrate on swing voters - whom you find all over the country.

Do you want the president to represent states, or to represent citizens?