Because it doesn ' t make sense for the whole country to be perpetually governed by people in less than 10 % of of our total countiesland ? It makes sense when that 10 % of the land has well over half the population and less importantly , 23 of the economic output that number is from a NYTimes piece , but I can ' t recall the title rn . I mean COME ON . People vote , not land . Why on Earth should 30 rural Ohioans ' votes count for more than 40 San Franciscans '? The mental gymnastics that some Americans go through to justify overriding the will of the majority plurality for semantics ' sake is just disgusting . The federal government already accounts for that land in the form of the Senate , which fulfills that purpose very well . If it ' s as close as 2000 , fine . A popular vote election very well have seen Bush beat Gore . But this year ? It ' s not even close . It makes absolutely no sense to give the victory to the candidate with 2 million and still counting less votes than the other . The electoral college is a shame on this country no , it doesn ' t actually help small states , either , and it completely silences the projected to be 4 . 5 million Californians voting for Trump and the ~ 3 . 8 million Texans voting for Clinton . probably remember some time in their life where they are governed by people they voted forAnother huge , gaping flaw in your argument Bushor a GOP challenger to Gore would ' ve still won in 2004 . But most importantly , Congress is completely controlled by the GOP . The GOP held Congress sometimes both Houses even when the charismatic , onceinageneration Barack Obama was presdient . And to answer the liberals ' whining about gerrymandering , the House would be red though not AS red even without artificial gerrymandering , since Dems tend to congregate themselves into the metro areas . I say all this as a conservative from the Bay Area . Why should my vote for Romney or any other sane Republican be essentially muted by the entitled brats around me who think education is a basic right ? Why should my vote for Clinton count for less than some unemployed , uneducated white guy who makes his right to own an AR 15 his most important issue when voting ?