most of their voter base doesnt even understand how the electoral college works.

they believe its actually a literal panel of independent voters that can be bought and sold, and arent limited to voting based on the majority vote of their state.

a lot of them literally believe all the red states are actually blue like them but the electoral college votes against the people which is just clearly not true.

this idea is a myth passed down from dem parent to dem child for at least 3 generations now that the 'electoral college' is a shady group of people who truly decide the president and that the popular vote of the state doesnt matter.

they simply dont understand how, if you removed the electoral college voting system, essentially youd only have to have two voting booths in NYC and LA and not even need to count the rest out of pure population.

somehow they think this "popular vote" is representative of majority population. and it is, in a way. but only in those two areas. 100% of the rest of the country including the rest of cali and NYS could vote red in such a situation and it would still only ever be blue guaranteed -- hence why you wouldnt even need voting booths anywhere else in the country anymore. or even to campaign outside them.

what would happen would be disastrous as the interests of the various states would be invalidated, its likely their economies would crumble as they lost any voice at all, and theyd probably end up seceding from the union over it. if they had any choice in the matter.