The Electoral College ensures that all states are valued

The Electoral College ensures that all states are valued by making sure that candidates have to campaign across the country and that the vote of people in each state matters. Under a system where a plurality of voters decide presidential elections, candidates are likely to campaign in areas of high population density. This means that candidates would campaign only in big cities, and voters from rural areas would be ignored. The Electoral College instead ensures that the candidates go to all parts of the country to campaign because they need electoral votes from multiple regions. This means that the candidates are exposed to a variety of opinions. They have to consider issues that are important to farmers and manufacturing workers as well as those important to people in the big cities. The President will make sure to serve the needs of the entire nation. This prevents a tyranny of the majority, where the largest and most populated states would decide all elections. For example, Obama had 3.3 million more popular votes than Romney in 2012, “but won 3.6 million more votes than Romney in just four cities — Chicago, Philadelphia, New York and Los Angeles.”^[1] This means that if we only considered the popular vote, then these cities could be who decides the elections. Politicians would cater to big-city issues, and the rest of the country would be neglected. The electoral college prevents this from happening. It ensures that voters from sparsely populated parts of the country that continue to have important industries also have an influential voice—voters in every part of the country matter.

[P1] The Electoral College ensures the opinions of all Americans are considered by making candidates campaign in states they otherwise might not visit. [P2] The Electoral College prevents a tyranny of the majority, where the largest and most populated states would decide all elections. [P3] The Electoral College ensures that all states are valued.