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Is the overall popular vote a moot point?
If popular vote was the emphasis on winning the election, wouldn't campaigns from both candidates be run in a completely different manner?
3 Answers
- Jeff DLv 74 years agoFavorite Answer
Yes, of course; if Presidents were elected by a nationwide popular vote, then we'd have very different campaigns. For example, both candidates would have spent a lot more time and money campaigning in southern California, New York, Texas, etc., instead of the states they did (New Hampshire, Iowa, South Carolina, Nevada, etc.).
- NosmoLv 74 years ago
A popular vote would break up the stranglehold of the 2 party system. It would also mean that Chump would have actually benefitted from the 33% of Californians vote, and Hillary would have benefitted from the 43% of Texans that voted for her, etc.
- SocratesLv 74 years ago
True.Any campaign base their strategy on getting the Elector vote going in. The "popular vote" is just an interesting statistic.
