text: Popular vote is the vote the people cast on who the new presidnet should be,the one representing our contry. The motto of this contry since the consitioution was signed was "We the people" as in we the people have a say in what we belive is right and justice. The Elector vote although gives someone else power to vote for us, like as in a state has more people lets try to win this state over. The amount of electors given to the state is based on the amount of people in the state and in the house of representives. For example the state of California has 55 electors becuase it is one of the larger states in the United States. In the passage "In defense of the elecortal College" by Richard A. Posner, he states it himself " The advocates of this position are correct in agurging that the Electoral College method is not democratic...when it is the Elecorts who elect the president, not the people.". That right there states that our votes are no longer taken into consideration, but now it is only the Electors voting for us, and not "We the people".