This has happened to me before . Basically what happens is the teather wants you to stay within the teather range , since you aren ' t near it , it sling shots you back up to correct the problem , leading you to fly like that because at the peak the teather ends . <| sep |> Geography is not a red herring here because states themselves are geographical in nature . They are boundaries drawn on a map to group people . Your argument , and most arguments I ' ve seen supporting the EC rely on what we have today . Nobody is arguing what constructs are in place today I don ' t argue that we have an electoral college , or with how we currently allocate votes . I argue that what we have today is not a good system , and that we should change it . Your argument is very similar to drugs illegal because they are bad and drugs are bad because they are illegal . The only thing I ' ve done is attempt to correct on the whole geography thing . Are you confusing me with someone else ? I would be more interested in you providing evidence or arguments about why the system we have today is the best system to achieve the goal of representing the nation . This is another basic misunderstanding . The office of the President is not a representative office . The goal you ' re looking at is not the goal the EC system was designed to accomplish . The President is Head of State , CommanderinChief of the Military , and head of the executive branch . Their job is not to represent the people , but to enact their will as expressed through Congress . When analyzing a system , the most important things to look at are the edge cases the extremes . Once you have analyzed the extremes , it is easy to see how things change as you shift from one extreme to the other . I don ' t need any lectures about analysis , thanks . For instance , let ' s say we had a country with 2 states . One with population of 1 , and one with a population of 1 , 000 . Do you think it makes sense for single resident of the first state to have greater voterpower with regards to the federal government ? I think that you would agree , because you have not argued that every state should have the same number of electoral votes . If the state with a thousand people wanted to entice that lone person state into a Union of States , they might make a deal with him so that he can feel assured that they won ' t simply extract the resources of his state or otherwise screw him over by outvoting him . Likewise , the thousandpeople state will want some rules in place to ensure that the loneperson state can ' t unilaterally control the country . This kind of negotiation between states is what led to our carefully balanced system . BTW if you ' re going for the the federal government represents the states , not the people argument , then you should be arguing for equal electoral votes for all states , regardless of population . Why ? States with larger populations felt they should have more say , and they negotiated with smaller states to find a compromise that left larger states with much more influence while still preventing that influence from being completely overbearing . You should also be arguing for Congress to be evenly distributed in the House as well , instead of proportionally distributed . You use should a lot when it ' s not warranted . You literally just described the Senate . Senate good for small states . House good for large states . Once again , it ' s about balance . If you do think they deserve more votepower though , then you are indeed making this about geography , I ' m just going to ignore every sentence with geography in it from here on out , since it is absolutely irrelevant . The other extreme is if we have two states , both with equal population . I think we will both agree that each of these states should have 100 % equal votepower . So if we start with this scenario , and then people start moving around , do you think that their vote should come with them ? Their vote for what , specifically ? This is very important to be clear on . Should residents of state A be able to vote for state B ' s representatives , even if they no longer live their ? The reason I bring this up is because American citizens don ' t vote for President . The vote for representatives EC , who vote for President based on the state ' s overall decision .