well... that ended on a cliffhanger.

Swing states have nothing to do with the electoral college as much as they do with other rules set up that determine when they are held. You could have this in a system that lets other states vote first but goes off the popular vote. His idea that winner-takes-all, however, is correct when it points out how dumb that shit is

electoral college is fine. It's gerrymandering and "winner take all" that fuck it up. The founders are right about direct democracy not being good in situations like this.

Eliminate those two things and the electoral college is fine and it would eliminate swing states as well.

Popular vote would totally fuck over any area that doesn't have a high population density. I'd be fine with tweaking the voter-to-electoral vote proportions though and get rid of the "electors" That would be reasonable.

It may need tweaks and refinements, but the overall concept is still valid.

Does anyone know if this college thing exists outside of the US? I really didn't know this is how it worked down there. It sounds crazy.

The electoral college is an unnecessary relic. At the time you would actually need a person from each state to physically go down to DC and cast a vote. With today's technology this has become clearly obsolete.