text: The main problem with the electoral college is that every state has its own number of electors. Smaller, less populated states are ignored during the election, while the presidents focus directly on high population states to get more electoral votes. Since most states go off a winner-takes-all basis, all the votes for the other candidate are ignored. Also in the occurence of a swing-state, candidates focus all attention on them. The voters in the swing-states then know more about the presidents and are more thoughtful on who to pick, while the voters in the parts ignored know nothing about the presidents. Some states can also be completely ignored, having no campaign there at all.