text: At the most basic level, the electoral college is unfair to voters. Because of the winner-take-all system in each state, candidates don't spend time in states they know they have no chance of winning, focusing only on the tight races in the "swing" states. "And if anyone has a good argument for putting the fate of the presidency in the hands of a few swing voters in Ohio, they have yet to make it". For example: In 2012's election, Obama received 61.7 percent of the electoral vote compared to only  51.3 percent of the popular votes cast for him and Romney.