B) Sure, the Electoral College might elect a loser every once in a while but it shows the importance of having a diverse electorate and appealing to people in many states. One easy fix I have for this is so, when nobody gets 270 EVs, the winner of the popular vote wins instead. That would reduce the already low probability of an EC win PV loss
To be fair, though, someone (such as Bush in 2000) who was a popular vote loser under our current system might
not have been a popular vote loser under a popular vote-based system due to the fact that a popular vote-based system might have caused Presidential candidates to conduct different campaigns, have different campaign themes and messages, et cetera. Indeed, here is a good FiveThirtyEight.com article about this
:
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/would-al-gore-have-won-in-2000-without-the-electoral-college/Also, though, what about if the popular vote is an exact tie?
In addition to this, though, if the Electoral College should go (which is the argument that some people are making), then why exactly shouldn't the U.S. Senate go as well? After all, both the Electoral College and the U.S. Senate favor smaller U.S. states (to some extent).
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