It ' s not that easy in the states . Seeing as we have pretty much every climate and geographical region type in our country there are a lot of different issues that people have in different places . This is where the electoral college makes sense at least in an ideal world . Farmers in middle America are a minority of the overall population but they have very important and vastly different issues than those in urban coastal areas . The electoral college exists to make sure that their votes and issues can ' t get drowned out by urban voters which would otherwise easily happen . There are problems with this though because the inverse is that sometimes issues important to city people get drowned out by farmers , because there is so much disconnect between the regions . That , and for other reasons we are unable to have a candidate that supports a mixture of values from the two different sides .