Abolish Electoral College

The electoral college is a group of people chosen by every state who officially elects the president and vice president of the united states. The electoral college started with the constitution of the united states, it cited how many electors each state is able to have. Since 1964 the has been 538 electors in each presidential election. The number of electors is equivalent to the entire membership of the united states congress, 435 representatives, 100 senators, and 3 electors from the district of Columbia. The democratic candidate and the republican candidate are both trying to add up the electors in every state so that they beat 270 electoral votes, or just over half of 538 votes and achieve presidency.
In a fair democracy everyone's vote
That means winning by millions of citizens votes is no better than winning by a single vote. So candidates are safe to ignore states with a pole with big margins. Instead the electoral college makes candidates intensely interested in the needs of just a few states with close races to the detriment of almost all americans which is why it should be abolished. Defenders of the electoral college might say, would abolishing it and voting directly for president cause candidates to spend all their time in big cities, that wouldn't be fair to most americans either. It sounds like a reasonable fear but it ignores the mathematical reality of population distribution. There are 300 million people in the united states, only 8 million people live in new york, the largest city by far. Thats 2.6% of the total population, but after new york the size of cities drops fast. L.A. has 3.8 million people and chicago has 2.7, but you can't even make it to the 10th biggest city san jose before you're under a million people. The top ten biggest cities put together only 7.9% of the popular vote, hardly enough to win an election. And even winning the next 90 biggest cities in the united states all the way down to spokane is still not yet 20% of the total population. So unless there's a city with a few hundred million people hiding somewhere in
Even though 78% of the population voted against you. This is not democracy, this is indefensible. While this particularly scenario is unlikely, if you have a voting system that allows losers to win, you shouldn't be surprised when they do. Not once, not twice, but three times in american history the candidates with the most votes from the people actually lost because of the electoral. Three errors in 55 plus elections is a failure rate of 5%. Would anyone tolerate a sport where because of the rules the is a 5% chance that the loser would win, not likely. Giving how much more important electing the president of the United States is a rather dangerously high percentage of the time to get it wrong. If we abolish the electoral college and simply let citizens vote for the president directly, all of these problems would go away and everyone's vote would be