>>Take a look at the maps here
>>http://www.nytimes.com/elections/results/president
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>>Especially the “counties” and “Size of Lead”
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>>These show exactly WHY the Electoral College is so important. If the election were based solely on the popular vote, most of it would be disenfranchised.
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>Only if you're measuring "most of it" by land area. Not if you're measuring by population, which seems a lot more relevant in a democracy.

We don't have a direct democracy by design, so not sure how that is relevant.