The thing that those who want to argue for removing the EC fail to take into account is the number of disenfranchised voters who stayed home because they live in a state where they can make no difference in the EC outcome.
Because of that you cannot look at the popular vote results in an EC election and claim that it would have been the actual popular vote outcome should there not be an EC.
At some level that ends up sounding like an argument for ending the EC, and to a point I see it.
But the fact that "flyover country" would become even more of a political desert should we go to a popular vote still leaves me on the side of the EC.
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