# Electoral College abolished-how would campaigning be different? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [October 17, 2012, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/electoral-college-abolished-how-would-campaigning-be-different/637999 "2012-10-17T13:46:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Jas09](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d07c76/32.png) [@Jas09](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jas09)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2012, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/electoral-college-abolished-how-would-campaigning-be-different/637999/41 "2012-10-30T01:15:48Z")
Actually, now I’m waffling a bit… let me meditate some more and maybe I’ll come up with some more definitive thoughts… ---
**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2012, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/electoral-college-abolished-how-would-campaigning-be-different/637999/42 "2012-10-31T16:14:01Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > I disagree. Think of all the voters in CA, NY, or IL who don’t vote because they know their state is not in play- now their votes _matter_. There’s literally millions of poor Democratic-leaning voters in those states that don’t vote regularly. There are also Republican voters who don’t vote for the same reason, of course, but I see no evidence that there are more such Republican voters than Democratic voters. My hypothesis is that people like to vote for a winner. People don’t like to vote for a loser. So if you know that your candidate is going to lose your state, the inertia to get off the couch and go vote is harder to overcome. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/electoral-college-abolished-how-would-campaigning-be-different/637999.md?page=2)