Why would a EU president be disastrous ? The EU is made up ethnicities blocs that do not see eye to eye , and they are divided into specific regions . Voting would fall along ethnic lines , and the candidates would see this and therefore would choose to appeal to the most advantageous bloc and establish a tenuous coalition . This is what moreorless occurs in U . S . elections . Except they wouldn ' t be battleground . The whole idea of a battleground state is that a small margin of 1 % can flip 30 electoral votes your way . The individual does not matter . A few votes for Party A in a region that is overwhelming Party B is not going to be focused on by Party A because the money for ads and campaigning is better served in areas where there are more votes and more unsecured votes . Candidates who focus on lowyeild areas would waste time and resources . Though I agree the game is different , the battlegrounds are still areas where votes can be swayed . With direct election , you don ' t win states , counties , or cities , you win individual people . All elections are about winning people . Direct election just changes the geographic boundary of the majority you have to win . Electoral college might seem like winning regions , but these regions still consist of individuals a candidate must win . So instead of campaigning only in evenly divided states , candidates would be more inclined to visit other areas of the country to get their base out . I would disagree . The candidates would only focus on the regions that pose the greatest amount of vote yeild with the least amount of effort . Therefore , areas or blocs that are majority Party A will be ignored just as much as before because they are secured voters . A direct election will not change that . As for blocs We have an Electoral College that evens out location , obviously . Why don ' t we have something to even out ethnicity then ? The reason I say location and ethnicity is because they are the best indicators of voting behavior . The Electoral College was designed for both . It is outdated because originally the different ethnicities were concentrated in specific States . Now , due to the change in transportation and immigration , the distribution has dramatically changed , which makes the use of States as population dividers questionable . Or gender , Though sex is significant I won ' t deny that , the voting behavior of women of different races differ dramatically . or age , The younger age groups are significantly more nonWhite than other age groups . This favors the Democrats who enjoy significant margins from nonWhites Weirdly , they are the same party that pushes for more immigration and amnesty . . If you broken by race , similar voting patterns would emerge to the general voting trends for the races . Though , whites do not behave as a voting bloc but as several , so this needs to be taken into account . or education ? If broken down according to other bloc delineations , it would most likely align with the general trend , but this is at best a guess . There is no reason population density should be a characteristic institutionally protected in our government when nothing else is . I agree .