AZPaul3 writes:
The super majority of voters along the coasts IS where the voters are.
The voters are across the entire country. How many voters can a candidate speak to at any one go? It seems they can get that same crowd in less dense areas.
In today's connected world, does it really matter where the candidate is?
We are also assuming that there voting will be lopsided in coastal regions. It doesn't need to be that way.
es, what minor numbers are added by the interior vote would be counted in the national totals. The point is, adding the interior vote totals would not change the outcome.
It absolutely could. It wasn't too long ago in history that Republicans were winning along the coasts. This was the Georg HW Bush's electoral map:
I think it is also a mistake to think that coastal voters are some kind of hive mind.
The way I'm seeing the politics, a popular vote presidential election would concentrate political influence to the coasts. A repaired electoral college scheme would broaden the candidates' need to schmooze and pork barrel farther inland.
If all candidates did that then they would split the coastal votes.