We can fly to the moon Ah , the we can put a man on the moon fallacy . but saving a public school ? Nah , it ' s impossible , as impossible as trying to stop the sun from rising . Right . At what cost are you willing to save it ? <| sep |> Whatever cartoon you saw was a load of shit . The top 10 cities in the country , if EVERYONE voted for one candidate in ALL of them , you ' d barely have a bit over 20 % of the vote . Far from enough to win , even if that happened . But you ' d more likely get something like 12 % of the popular vote , since there ' s no chance in hell that EVERYONE in those cities votes one way . So no more fluttering into a few big cities in a few swing states . You ' ve gotta go everywhere and get as many as you can , all over the country , to vote for you . It ' s no longer winner takes all in a state . A blue candidate can ' t ignore red states and a red candidate can ' t ignore blue states . Hillary campaigning in Texas and Trump campaigning in California would actually make sense now . No ignoring most of the rust belt or most of new England . Winning a few major cities won ' t win you the popular vote . Not even close . In a popular vote system , EVERYONE and EVERYWHERE would be in play for any candidate . Not just swing states .