"If the president were elected by simple majority vote then small states would be overpowered by large states. Thanks to the electoral college the interests of small states are protected."
Okay but... what are the "interests of small states"? Do small states have a consistent set of certain political interests that are clearly distinguishable from the interests that big states have? Do people who live in small states categorically believe or care about different things than people who live in big states do?
Conservatives like to talk about "small states" as if that isn't a category that includes both Vermont and Wyoming.
What will always be incredibly funny about this argument is that there are probably three times as many republican boaters in California, Oregon and Washington than in every single sparsely populated red "smol state" like Wyoming, Utah, etc entire voting population combined, and they are completely and totally voiceless thanks to their own electoral system they're so eager to defend. It's actively damaging to their own electoral interests and they have to defend it by muttering something something mob rule, something something, smol states. They can't even fathom winning an election by popular policies; they deliberately endorse unpopular policies and have to win via legal technicalities, because the 1% knows better than the common rabble.
Yeah I came here thinking this too. The conservatives who defend the electoral college are tacitly throwing away millions of votes they could get from California and New York. If America had some kind of parliamentary system like in other countries, the chuds could possibly come out ahead if they played it right.
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