“We can’t afford to let this happen. The only way Trump has any real chance for re-election is if we continue operating under the archaic Electoral College. Why? Because in the version of the Electoral College that we use today, all that matters is the opinions of swing states — and Trump wins swing states. … Money spent by candidates per state is a useful metric for discovering which states truly matter in elections.”

You are assuming that the candidates would spend money the same way if the Electoral College was replaced with a national popular system (which would take a Constitutional Amendment to do), it wouldn’t. Instead of having swing states deciding the national elections, you would have population centers deciding, which would mean that three or four states, like California, New York, New Jersey, and Florida deciding every elections, and that is where the money would be spent. The smaller and the less populated states would get no say, only the large population centers would count.

This is why you will never get an amendment to pass the 2/3 states required to be ratified, and since it would first have to be passed by a majority of both houses for the states to get a say on it, it will never get to the states as it will die in Congress. So, dream on.

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