text: Candidates don't really care for small states with small population because they know that they don't matter in the resultof them being elected as president or not. According to "The Indefensible Electoral Collage: Why even the best-laid defenses of the system are wrong" by Bradford  Plumer "Seventeen states didn't see the candidates al all, including Rhode Island and South Carolina, and voters in 25 of the largest media markets didn't get so see a single campain as. "You may ask yourself why they didn't see any of of this well one thing that both of them share is that they dont have as many electoral collage votes as other states like Califoprnia that has 55 electoral votes. And it's a winner take all the less popular candidate from the state doesn't get any votes at all.