Wouldn't that just throw a monkey wrench...

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"Yoni about the populous states having the power in a true majority system"

is why direct election is the fairest, one person, one vote for the president.

No disenfranchising distortions about districts, or states, or less/more populous, red/blue, plus it would make the election national instead of having campaigs attacking only the swing states.

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"Yoni about the populous states having the power in a true majority system"

is why direct election is the fairest, one person, one vote for the president.

No disenfranchising distortions about districts, or states, or less/more populous, red/blue, plus it would make the election national instead of having campaigs attacking only the swing states.

Actually campaigns would then just campaign in the most populous cities and states because the "swing" factor of less populous areas is insignificant.

Either way works. Candidates only campaign a few select swing states in any system. Theoretically a representative vote and a popular vote should yield the same result, but the problem with a representative vote is something the foundinf fathers did not forsee, party loyalty overriding what the cons uancy wants. As long as they throw in enough pork, they still get re-elected.

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I also love how this advertisement was on the same linked webpage:

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just have a nationwide across-the-board popular vote. person with the most votes wins.

wouldn't be fair to all the redneck garbage in the middle. i'm still hoping they will one day evolve, or expire.

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"just campaign in the most populous cities and states because the "swing" factor of less populous areas is insignificant."

maybe, what's wrong with that? The campaigns put their $$$ now on electoral votes. Putting their $$$ where need to get the most citizens' vote is more purely democratic and representational. The citizens elect the president, not their reps.

Why the distorting artifice of the reps and states?

The president is the president of all the citizens, not the president of the states or of president of citizens reps.