[paulgb]

In 2016, between NY and CA, Democrats got 13,309,912 votes out of a total of 136,669,276, or 9.74% of the popular vote. Because of winning NY and CA, they got 84/538 electoral votes, or 15.61%.

Technically, you also need to figure in the fact that by winning NY and CA it also means that some Republican votes in that popular vote denominator are also removed, so it gets a bit more complicated, but here's the full math if you want to check it.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1haVZVC3iYBOMwCO2ZZia...

[bombcar]

More importantly, political operatives on both sides know how to predict election-related action based on our current system.

Nobody knows how to predict it based on another system, so they're all conservative as in wanting to keep the status quo.

If the voting system changed, there's no telling how many people would start or stop voting based on the new rules.