Reply #4: With a direct national presidential election [View All]

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you get nationwide recounts, not statewide, hugely increased incentives for vote fraud in uniparty Republican or Democratic states, and no incentive for presidential candidates to campaign outside their biggest, most populous vote-getting territories (you'd never see a Democratic presidential candidate more than 100 miles from an ocean or great lake again). Also, you create the possiblity of purely regional presidential candidates who could win on the strength of overwhelming popular vote in just a few states.