text: The electoral college has a weird way of how they run and choose. Like the example in "whats wrong with the electoral college" it saiys that "if someone lived in Texas and they wanted to vote for John Kerry you'd vote for a slate of 34 democratic electors pledged to John Kerry and then John Kerry would have 34 electoral votes."  If it were based on popular vote the points would be split to the person based on the number of votes they got.