Millions of voters in the red States voted for Hillary. But, when it came to electing the Commander in Chief, none of those votes counted. They were entirely disenfranchised, just like millions of Republican voters in the States that went blue.
Let it go David. I had a number of teachers in h.s. and college that explained the Electoral College and gave high praise to the Founding Fathers for having the intelligence, and foresight, to establish it.
Each State gets a number of Electors to the College equal to the number of members it has in Congress, both the House and the Senate combined. As the number of Representatives a State has in the House is based on the size of its population, so then, what is the difference?
Some States have laws stating that all electoral votes go for the candidate that has the highest count of votes, other States allow he electors to vote as the Congressional District they represent has voted to the majority.
If you don't like that you live in a State that requires all the Electors to vote for only one candidate, then make an effort to change the law governing how Electoral votes are to be cast in your State.
In a republic, an official set of fundamental laws, like the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights, prohibits the government from limiting or taking away certain “inalienable” rights of the people, even if that government was freely chosen by a majority of the people. In a pure democracy, the voting majority has almost limitless power over the minority. The Constitution then becomes "nothing more than a g*****ed piece of paper", just as "Dubya" is reported to have said.
If a president were to be elected by a majority vote of all votes cast by the citizens, then a candidate wouldn't have to give any consideration to regional and, or, State differences.
Let's say, for example, if the Nation were to a majority of its citizenry, Mormons, then that candidate, once elected could have every activity prohibited by Mormon creed made illegal. If it were to the majority Jewish, same thing, Muslim, same thing, Cargo Cult, Satanic, what have you. Those "Blue Laws" that once existed in Massachusetts could be implemented nationwide, for example.
What you are advocating is a dissolution of States rights and that this Union of the Republic instead became a singular democracy.
It's not going to happen. I will wager any amount you wish to lose that if such a law were federally enacted there will be a number of States that will secede from the Union.
This is a Republic, a union of individual States governed by a Constitution not a democracy of "mob rule"
