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CMV: The President of the United States should be elected through the popular vote.

Yes, I understand the importance of the electoral college and I do understand that having our representatives elected by popular vote would create a majority rules system that would ignore the minority. I’m not advocating for Congress to change.

Right now our system is designed to cater to the interests of a few areas that aren’t densely populated with disregard to the needs and interests of the majority. This creates a system that holds the views of the minority with more regard. 

If the majority of people agree with one view point, the president should also hold those views and be representative of the majority people.

If the president could be elected through the popular vote it would also open things up more for a third party if they managed to convince the majority of the people about their platform.

Edit: a lot of comments are missing the point of my post and going straight to disenfranchisement but my post makes it clear that the minority would still be represented through congressional representation. The only difference would be the president and I don’t see how a president representing the majority of the people would disenfranchise anyone.

You are saying that having a president based on majority only helps them majority but I could say the same about a president elected by the minority: they would ignore the majority.
gpt
>If the president could be elected through the popular vote it would also open things up more for a third party if they managed to convince the majority of the people about their platform.

If one of your goals is to open the field up for third parties, the popular vote won't help you do that.

You need to change the voting system away from first-past-the-post, and replace it with something more representative. There are a lot of potential voting systems, each with their own pros and cons. FPTP will always devolve into a two-party system.

Honestly removing FPTP should be first priority for America, it would solve many problems they are currently facing. It would mean no longer "choosing the lesser of two evils". However since FPTP seems to have bipartisan support from the two evils, and of course it would, there is no way for the American people to have a democratic say in the matter.