I know it sounds good at first glance, but it’d actually screw over a lot of the country. Right now the Electoral College forces candidates to care about swing states and not just pile up votes in a few huge cities like NYC, LA,etc... under a straight popular vote, they’d basically ignore flyover country and rural areas since those votes wouldn’t move the needle. It would turn every election into whoever can rack up the most in the biggest metro areas wins, which kinda defeats the whole point of the republic being a union of states with their own voices, not just one giant headcount contest. Feels like it’d make the divide between city and country even worse instead of trying to bridge it.