text: First, the issue of big states.  States are put in two catogories, big states and small states, accoring to population. Presidential candidates give more of their attention during the campain to the larger states.  As a result of electral college the big states have more elctors and thus more votes.  For example, in Forida, the popular vote was extermly close in 2012,  Obama who won, got 29 electoral votes.  If obama had spent that time in Wyoming, he would have only had gotten 3 electoral votes.