And if we did have popular votes, the cities woud still dominate politics. The major cities are powerful, it doens't matter how many farmers who don't see the world beyond their farm and church think, they will still lose.
The states may go to whoever gets the most votes, but that does not hide the fact that there are a lot of liberal voters in the country, concentrated in high population areas.
And what would we get if the rural areas actually were powerful? Trump, Trump, Trump.
Trump is a candidate for the Rural. The Rural viewpoint created him, and endorse him. They are the ones who want walls, they are the one who hate, they are the ones who create economic decisions that ruin the nation, they are the ones who caused the War of 1812, the Civil War, etc etc etc.
(F.Y.I the War of 1812 was pushed by Southerners and Western Settlers, the Rural People. It was opposed by New England and other more urban areas. Low and behold, the war goes badly and the war they started threatens New Engand and New York the most.)
(Also F.Y.I the Civil War was started by Southerners, who were at the time predominately Rural and dominated by slave holding plantation owners.)
The Democratic Nintendo fan....is that a paradox? I'm fond of one of the more conservative companies in the industry, but I vote Liberally and view myself that way 90% of the time?
