If we didn't have the archaic electoral college system, NY, CA, and IL will choose our president and the rest of us can shut up about it.

I don’t understand this. Does your state elect its governor by weighting votes from different counties differently? Don’t all the votes count the same? Doesn’t the governor pay the same attention, roughly, to all the parts of the state - or at least in proportion to how many votes he/she thinks are available there?

Why would a Presidential candidate ignore New England if it was an area that would produce a lot of votes for that candidate? Or the South? Or the West? Why wouldn’t a candidate go everywhere and anywhere they could to meet with voters and discuss the issues that are important to them, given that it’s a big country with lots of varying constituencies, from manufacturing to farming to mineral extraction to conservation?

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