[greedylizard]

The electoral college rigs the game. If one person equaled one vote, American government could look significantly different right now.

[philistine]

Those are sufficient excuses that prevent countries from signing free trade deals with other nations: we don't trust the health of your political system to sign a free trade deal with your nation.

[walls]

It would still have trump at the head of it.

[tacticalturtle]

In a world without an electoral college, I’m not sure you can say this.

Almost every state is winner take all in electoral votes.

I suspect there are a lot of discouraged voters who don’t vote, because they live in states where their opinion is overrun by the political slant of the state’s majority.

In a direct popular vote, their vote counts a lot more.

[alistairSH]

Trump might be in the WH, but Congress would possibly not be controlled by the GOP.