So, the population of Florida, New York, and California combined are greater than the total population of the remaining states? Excuse my ignorance, but I can't remember the states total populations! I'm speaking of popular vote nation-wide, not within each state and then each state has a number of votes...I understand the reasoning behind the electoral college, but I'm not sure it always works...


>>>Gore won the popular vote, Bush won the electoral collage. The US elects the president via electoral votes.
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>>I believe electoral votes is not an accurate way of reflecting our country's choice and it should be changed to the popular vote myself.
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>Be careful what you wish for here. Do you really want California, New York and Florida deciding who would be president? That would be the most likely result of popular vote tallys. (I know, I know, it was just Florida last time. ;) )