Big money . Leadership of both parties are paid to support this . Remember that the establishment is bipartisan and fighting back means we the people have to band together and take the power back . <| sep |> Goddamn boys speakers on this phone is fucked <| sep |> Firstly , you ' re definitely right to say these polls aren ' t persuasive particularly because many of these people haven ' t really thought about the implications or hashed out arguments with opponents . I strongly support a popular vote and think it ' s shortcomings are overstated in this regard . The Population Centers argument fails because it ignores both the actual reality of population distribution and urban diversity . The top ten cities have less than 10 % of people and it drops off rapidly from there . Furthermore , Urban can ' t be treated as a unified voting block . There is no city in the US that is 100 % hardline liberal , in the most extreme case they are between 6080 % but more often it ' s closer to 50 %. Jacksonville FL , # 12 by population , just went 60 % republican this election . Some people say the metropolitan areas contain more like 90 M people , but that ignores the fact that metro areas are huge , diverse , and contain areas outside The City . Put simply , you CANNOT win only by catering to major cities . I would also argue that the current system disenfranchises far more people , firstly by ensuring a Californian ' s vote counts for 13 of a Wyoming vote , and secondly by removing entirely the influence of a conservative Californian or a Wyoming liberal .