text: Popular votes should be what decides our president.  Therefore we actually have a say in who we want to be president.  For example, in the 2000 U.S. presidental race, Al Gore recieved more individual votes then George W. Bush nationwide,  but because of the Electoral College Bush won because he had 271 electoral votes while Gore had 266.  Also in the election in2012 Obama recieved 61.7 percent of the electoral votes comparing to only 51.3 percent of the popular votes.  Sure he still would have won but at least individual people actually had a say in who they got as their president.  Also in 2012, the popular vote was very close in Florida, but Obama won the electoral vote with 29 .  But in Wyoming the same thing happened and he only got three electoral votes.  This shows a large state gets more attention in presidential canidates than a small state does.  If presidency was decided by the individual votes then it wouold be more fair and more poeple would have a say in it.