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I am not paid by the DNC or a Soros-funded group. This is my unpaid effort to educate. I believe you meant "their" trolls.

Voters in the biggest cities in the US are almost exactly balanced out by rural areas in terms of population and partisan composition. 16% of the U.S. population lives outside the nation's Metropolitan Statistical Areas. Rural America has voted 60% Republican. None of the 10 most rural states...

With National Popular Vote, when every popular vote counts and matters to the candidates equally, successful candidates will find a middle ground of policies appealing to the wide mainstream of America. Instead of playing mostly to local concerns in Ohio and Florida, candidates finally would...

Given the historical fact that 95% of the U.S. population in 1790 lived in places of less than 2,500 people, and only a few states let males, with substantial property, vote, it is unlikely that the Founding Fathers were concerned about presidential candidates being elected only by voters in big...

Analysis of US Census figures and vote results.

In Gallup polls since they started asking in 1944 until this election, only about 20% of the public has supported the current system of awarding all of a state's electoral votes to the presidential candidate who receives the most votes in each separate state (not mentioned in the U.S...

Because of state-by-state winner-take-all laws, not mentioned, much less endorsed, in the Constitution. . . In 2000, 537 popular votes in Florida determined that the candidate who had 537,179 less national popular votes would win. Less than 80,000 votes in 3 states determined the 2016...

Because of state-by-state winner-take-all laws, not mentioned, much less endorsed, in the Constitution. . . Issues of importance to 38 non-battleground states are of so little interest to presidential candidates that they don’t even bother to poll them individually. Charlie Cook reported in...

Because of state-by-state winner-take-all laws, not mentioned, much less endorsed, in the Constitution. . . Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker in 2015 was correct when he said "The nation as a whole is not going to elect the next president," “The presidential election will not be decided by all...

A successful nationwide presidential campaign of polling, organizing, ad spending, and visits, with every voter equal, would be run the way presidential candidates campaign to win the electoral votes of closely divided battleground states, such as Ohio and Florida, under the state-by-state...

The population of the top five cities (New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston and Philadelphia) is only 6% of the population of the United States. Voters in the biggest cities in the US are almost exactly balanced out by rural areas in terms of population and partisan composition. 16% of the...

Constitutionally, the number of electors in each state is equal to the number of members of Congress to which the state is entitled,while the 23rd Amendment grants the District of Columbia the same number of electors as the least populous state, currently three. There are 538 electoral votes...

Maine had A battleground district in 2016. Maine (since enacting a state law in 1969) and Nebraska (since enacting a state law in 1992) have awarded one electoral vote to the winner of each congressional district, and two electoral votes statewide. Nebraska in 2008 was the first time any...

Because of state-by-state winner-take-all laws Candidates have no reason to poll, visit, advertise,organize, campaign, or care about the voter concerns in the dozens of states where they are safely ahead or hopelessly behind. Battleground states are where they are not safely ahead or...

The National Popular Vote bill would replace state winner-take-all laws that award all of a state’s electoral votes to the candidate who get the most popular votes in each separate state (not mentioned in the U.S. Constitution, but later enacted by 48 states), in the enacting states, to a system...

95% of the U.S. population in 1790 lived in places of less than 2,500 people, and only a few states let males, with substantial property, vote Now, voters in the biggest cities are almost exactly balanced out by rural areas in terms of population and partisan composition. 16% of the U.S...

In Gallup polls since they started asking in 1944 until this election, only about 20% of the public has supported the current system of awarding all of a state's electoral votes to the presidential candidate who receives the most votes in each separate state (not mentioned in the U.S...

Unable to agree on any particular method for selecting presidential electors, the Founding Fathers left the choice of method exclusively to the states in Article II, Section 1 “Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors….” The U.S...

Given the historical fact that 95% of the U.S. population in 1790 lived in places of less than 2,500 people, and only a few states let males, with substantial property, vote, it is unlikely that the Founding Fathers were concerned about presidential candidates being elected only by voters in big...