text: If we we going to change the election to by a popular vote thngs would get out of hand and horrble things could happen. Large states as Texas, California, and Minnesota would have a "winner-take-all" system that awards all electors to the winning presidential canidate. People not in those states would get angry and things would get bad. It takes 270 out of 538 to be elected president and if changing to popular vote for the election would be thelargest state elector would be the president.