I think everyone needs to vote but

[kacekwl]

I'm kind of tired of feeling like my vote doesn't really count because of the stupidity of the electoral college. In a country with 50 states + the only ones that matter are so called swing states. When are we going to make everyone's vote count. Democrats consistently win the popular vote and lose. How is that fair? How is that even a thing anymore ? Is there any chance this will change anytime soon?

[Ferrets are Cool]

1. Preaching to the choir.

[Jerry2144]

2. Not until we change the Constitution

It was a compromise to get the slave states to agree. Just like the second amendment and the make up of the Senate.

It is time to redo the constitution. But we can’t do it until we cure the cancer of the Confederacy that has infected the Republiklan Party

[Jerry2144]

6. If the number of seats in the House expanded

To be more proportional to the population, it could help somewhat. The smaller states each get one House seat. Larger ones get multiples of that based upon population. This fix wouldn’t take a constitutional change, just updating a law from long ago that set the House size at 438

[Mister Ed]

3. Yep. "It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing".

If your state's not a swing state, then it will be largely ignored by presidential campaigns. (Which, at least, will spare you the barrage of awful TV ads.)

My faint hope is that technology will enable a broad redistribution of the population, making the Electoral College more reflective of the popular vote. That, in turn, would make it possible to do away with the Electoral College via constitutional amendment.

[Voltaire2]

4. Popular vote compact

https://www.nationalpopularvote.com/written-explanation

It gets routinely dismissed here, but it is the only remotely viable path to get to a national presidential election.

[kacekwl]

5. Good information.

Thanks

[Jerry2144]

7. Fixing the House size can help too

A small state still only gets 1 House seat. But a state with 70 times that population gets 70 seats. This lightens the imbalance but doesn’t fix it since the Senate is still 2 seats per state. We can expand the House since that’s only set by a law. Anything else involves a constitutional change or rewrite which is dangerous if too many Christofascist Republiklans get input

[Voltaire2]

8. Yeah, the House ought to go back to something much closer to 30,000 people per representative.

And the senate is just unfixable as you note, without a serious constitutional change, which is not possible these days.