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Originally Posted by onwebcam
Because if that was the case everyone ever voted in would be Democrat? Those are the only 2 places they would campaign..
This is another reason she lost
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Doesn't your graphic prove that the Electoral College isn't needed? The vote was within a few percentage points of each other this election and your graphic shows a lot of states that neither candidate campaigned it yet somehow, it must be voodoo magic or something, those people managed to make a choice and cast a vote.
People always say, "With no Electoral College the candidates would focus only on New York and California."I disagree. They say that as if one candidate could convince 100% of the people in those states to vote for them. 30% of the voters in California voted for Trump. 43% of the voters in Texas voted for Clinton and yet neither campaigned in those states.
The people in this country are spread out enough now, and will continue to do that as the cost of living in big cities continues to rise, that candidate will still have to run a campaign that focuses on the country as a whole. And, instead of visiting somewhere like Florida 20 times because it is a battleground state, they could go visit it a few times and then go to other states that they regularly wouldn't visit and rally their supporters there.