[Grumplestiltskin]

“No, it’s actually pretty meaningless”

Was it “meaningless” in the 2000 election?

You have a VERY short recollection of recent history.

Without the Electoral College, Al Gore would have been president. He indeed won the “popular vote”.

If that had happened, I shudder to think at where we might have been today.

Even with the current non-legitimate holder of the Oval Office...

[Huck]

I'm saying it's meaningless as far as balancing out big states/little states, city/country. 2000 was a once a century oddity.

As for what-ifs, who knows? We might have been better off now had Gore won in 2000. There's no way to know what might have been.