Why would a popular vote make your vote count less ? It would actually make it count more if your state is a safe red or blue state . For example a Republican living in California has pretty much no say under the electoral college , but under a popular vote their voice would actually matter . <| sep |> I used to live a couple blocks from this store , and I still live fairly close by . It ' s one of the only 24 hour convenience stores in the area . It ' s located in an area of Richmond called Carytown , which is kind of like an uptown shopping district with restaurants , bars , grocery stores , convenience stores , boutique shops , etc . , and is far from being a shady area of the town and , as a matter of fact , has some of the lowest crime rates in the city . There are many college students that live in this area , as it is close to VCU , VUU , and U of R , so to see several young adults walking into the store is commonplace , not something rare and weird . When I lived a couple blocks from here , I would only go to this store if the Walgreens a block away was closed . Walgreens always has a lot of helpful staff and has always been excellent . Sometimes , at that CVS , you can ' t find anyone to check you out , or there ' s only one person working in the entire store . It ' s poorly staffed with employees that generally don ' t care and don ' t want to be there . Richmond Police Department also has an insanely good presence and response time in this community . The one time I had to call them for a drunk guy honestly , he was probably on something much stronger trying to break into my apartment , 7 police cars showed up in less than 5 minutes no exaggeration , it was quite impressive . Heck , there ' s often an officer on duty at that CVS , or there ' s a police car parked within a few blocks with patrol officers . Something ' s not right with this story if it took 3045 minutes for the police to show up . I would have just left if there were no employees on duty , and , my guess is an employee took a break , came back , saw them still walking around after 30 minutes and freaked out why were they still there ? then called the police .