So when handing in votes, smaller states wouldn’t matter in a popular vote? The population of those states wouldn’t contribute to the balance of red vs blue simply because of their size? How? Do they just not vote?

When you twist and turn lines of districts in order to make one county (using Missouri and St. Louis, which has a higher population density compared to the rest of the state as an example) represent more than the rest of the state combined, that’s fair? “People are more closely packed in this 1/100th of the state, but plenty of people live elsewhere in the state, so they don’t matter.” I don’t follow.

Perhaps using the states as blankets for swaying one way or the other isn’t the best way anymore.

Using the actual votes from the people, to vote for who we want, which we advertise as a selling point to the rest of the world, makes a lot of sense. Because if you keep the current system, the people could vote mostly one way, and one candidate wins, but then the population density says no they don’t. You win, but you don’t. Doesn’t sound like a fair process.