Subduction Zone
Veteran Member
How is an opinion piece "facts"?I forgot you hate facts.
The additional voice that small states get is hardly even enough to sway an election. Especially since the small states never vote together. That is the only way that they could start to wield that power. The states that do have excessive power are the larger battleground states. Presidential candidates are going to spend more time and money in those states and make more promises for those states. I am in a very blue state. Before targeted ads became a thing we would get just as many political ads as anyone else during elections. Now we get almost nothing for Presidential races. Both sides know that they can save money by not advertising here. The same applies to very red states.
A national popular vote would mean that the Presidential candidates would have to listen to everyone and to try to appeal to everyone. If you think that they are going to spend much time in Wyoming, the state where individual voters have more power than anyone else in the country, you are crazy. Nor are they going to spend much time in Vermont or Alaska. A stop in Delaware or Rhode Island might make some sense. Those states are so small that people from other states would be likely to drive in. But of the bottom eight that would be about it.