text: Another issue with the electoral college is that it gives canidates different motives for their campaign.  I believe that in an electoral campaign, canidates should be advertising their views equally to all parts of the country, if all parts of the country get to have a say in their voting.  However, most of the time, entire countries are skipped over by canidates, as if they don't matter, so that the canidates can talk to states that they find more important to get a vote from.  In the election of 2000, a seventeen whole states didn't see the canidates at all, and some of the larger states didn't see a single campaign ad.  If the presidents know that they are practically guaranteed the electoral votes by a state, why would they waste their time trying to persuade a state that is already persuaded?  It makes sense for the canidates to see "swing states"-the states that are more divided, and whose electoral votes are not guaranteed one way or another.  I don't blame the canidates for their methods, but the electoral college itself for bringing about these techniques for campaigning.