There are plenty of people who strongly dislike the Electoral College, which is utilized as the mechanism to determine the winner of the Presidential election, of which, a lot of these people who dislike the Electoral College so much, lack both imagination as well as an understanding that the Electoral College typically makes the election of the President to be far more interesting, because of the strategic thinking and strategies that are needed and are subsequently utilized in order to best get their candidate elected. In other words, if the President was decided solely upon the popular vote, then all of the States that are small, of which, for instance, the twenty-two smallest States have a population that is essentially equivalent to the population of California, would be pretty much, ignored, because their overall impact would be minimal. Whereas, as it stands right now, smaller and medium-sized States are important to win, of which, some of these become “battleground States” because to win all the Electoral College votes within those States, is a very strong factor as to whether a given Presidential candidate becomes President.
Indeed, there isn’t any real good reason, why the Electoral College could not be expanded to the United States Congress, of which, for the Senate, it would be proposed that each of the Congressional districts would receive a certain amount of Electoral College representatives based upon the population of that Congressional district, and the winner of the overall State electoral vote, subject to some minimum amount of Electoral College vote totals, which would be basically akin to the 270 Electoral College votes so needed to win the Presidency, would be sufficient to win the Senate seat. As for those States with just one Congressional representative, nothing would change, but in those States, with more than one Congressional representative, it would change the strategy of the candidates and would make it more likely that “battleground Congressional districts” would thereby be relevant to the Senate election.
Additionally, Congressional elections could also be structured into the Electoral College system, by subdividing each district, into Electoral College enclaves, that were made up of the individual counties within each Congressional district, or if that was problematic, something else along those same lines. This therefore would also make Congressional elections, more strategic, in which, those voters within “battleground counties” would be paid more attention to, than previously, under the old rules.
Again, to simply elect representatives solely based upon the vote, isn’t all that interesting, because those so running for election, are going to concentrate their efforts upon those population centers that make a material difference in their getting elected; whereas, when the Electoral College is enforced, thereby making it winner take all within each Electoral College enclave, the strategy to win an election, will be different and thereby we will see those seeking election making a more concerted effort to win over those that previously were left behind or ignored by election pamphleteering. So too, there would be a greater interest in elections, when the people felt that their vote actually mattered, which makes for a better representative government, so meant to be of, for, and by the people.