text: Lets say that the state legislatures are technically responsible for picking electors. Those electors can always defy the will of the people. Faithless electors have occasionally refused to vote for their party's candidate and cast a deciding vote for whoever they pleased. Why on earth would they do such a thing. They should care about what voters believe in. In 1960, people who favored seperation based on race in the Louisiana legislature nearly actually succeeded in replacing the Democratic electors with new electors so that they would oppose John F. Kennedy. This means the popular votes would not have actually gone to Kennedy. That is not fair. Candidates don't spend time in states they know they have no chance of winning. They focus only on the tight races in the "swing" states.