Opinion of Electoral Vote Allocation by Congressional District

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Bad system. Even if we were able to curb gerrymandering, there's still the natural gerrymander of urban clustering which would bias the system inherently. I don't really see any good reason we shouldn't base it on the national popular vote, despite all the concern trolling about how that would just mean candidates would have to campaign to places where, you know, the most people live.

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It's not really, though. Not precisely.

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I often hear people claim that abandoning the Electoral College for the popular vote would be bad because then candidates would just focus on large population centers. First, no they wouldn't. At least, not necessarily. Both parties don't get equivalent turnout from those places. Second, and more important, so what if they did? If they're reaching out to more people, and to do that they're reaching out to the places where more people live, isn't that a good thing?

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Well if it went by congressional district, Democrats would have a much harder time.  I'm not in favor of it but the presidential election isn't a popularity contest either.  If it's that close and the candidate with less votes comes out on top then it shouldn't matter.  Our system was set up like this to prevent the majority from becoming a mob and because our founding fathers didn't think the average voter was sophisticated enough to decide who should be president.  The Electoral College is a nice compromise.  Only a few times has it not favored the winner of the popular vote.

If the system was set up to prevent the majority from becoming a mob, why would the system be perfectly fine with an arbitrarily geographically entrenched minority becoming a mob?