I find many of you beyond ignorant. The only thing giving your average American a say in who is president is the EL Coll. Any of you who still live in Iowa could say "Goodbye" to having any say in who is elected president if the electoral college was eliminated. LA, NY and Chi town would be the only places that would matter. You would never see a politician in Iowa again. Whatever the largest cities wanted would be all that mattered. Ask anyone who lives in a major city like I do, if you don't agree, too bad......
That happens already in non swing states....
I would argue if every vote counted you would see every state being shown love in elections that were in a dead heat.
The main determining number of the electoral college is the number of house of representatives. That needs to change and be more like one vote per 25K or such. Keep in mind that number has been set at 435 since 1913 and two more were added for Alaska and Hawaii. So as the US added 220 million people the number of electoral college votes has stayed the same...huh? It is no longer balanced and swung way too in favor of the rural populations getting more voting power. Which is how you get such a BS moment as the one now. Case in point, California has one electoral vote per 712,000 people, Wyoming — the least populous state in the country — has one electoral vote per 195,000 people.