What’s with this winning the popular vote? Last I looked, Canky is just under 48%. She will accumulate more votes over the next month or so, while counting completes, but will NOT get over 50%, will NOT get a majority of the PV.
OTOH, Trump got 57%, a clear majority of the EV. (presuming MI in the mix; without MI, then 54%).
Good point. She did not win a majority of the popular vote.
In fact, with any number of candidates running (this time four) a majority is unlikely. This is one of the reasons for the electoral college system - it is more likely to result in a candidate winning a majority.
Another is that it keeps the urban areas from dominating the rural areas.
Many of the states would never have ratified the constutution without the electoral college system.
I think it should go further than it does. I think it should be the 438 electors allocated to the states based on population, plus 6 (instead of 2) for each state, for a total of 838, and 420 required to win.
This would mean (approximately) half of the electors would be based on population and half based on simply being a state. Maybe that isn’t even going far enough. It bothers me that bigger states can control the smaller states. The sovereignty of a state government should be above the federal government.