Should we abolish the popular vote?

[Хahar 🤔]

The opposite should be done.
Get rid of the archaic system we have and go with the most votes win.

I can only imagine, over time candidates would only run from cities and nobody would have any representation from the country.

Over time, people would only live in cities and there would be nothing to represent in the country.

[Хahar 🤔]

Right...the Districts would have no geographical lines.  They would just be numbered 1-100, and presumably they would acquire their own de-facto "boundaries", geographic or otherwise.

I actually somewhat like this.

[Хahar 🤔]

What bothers me about election coverage, is the fascination with the popular vote totals and the nearly complete absence of any discussion of state totals.  Even on this site, the maps list the electoral counts and the popular vote totals, without listing the comparable state totals.

Per the constitution, the president is chosen by the states.  Not by the people.  States can decide how they want to make that choice, and currently all do so by having a popular preference contest.

The great compromise came about when the small states aquisced to the larger ones by giving them more power in the house of representatives and the presidential selection.  But they did not intend to be overwhelmed by that power, thus the senate and the electoral college.

The answer's a lot simpler than you think.

State totals are boring. We're not really interested in thinking up 51 PV totals.

[Хahar 🤔]

In parliamentary systems in some foreign nations, one party won a majority of the seats even though it received fewer "popular votes."

Does anyone know of a movement in a nation with a parliamentary system to change their system?

There was a minor row over this in Malta some time ago.