In 2016, two-thirds of all public campaign events were held in just six states: Michigan, Ohio, Florida, Pennsylvania, Virginia and North Carolina; toss in six more and you’ve got 94 percent of all campaign events.
That's just smart campaigning. Your not going to visit Idaho 9 times and Pennsylvania 9 times if you know you already have Idaho as a win. Work smarter, not harder
Half the population now lives in just nine states.
Exactly. So if half the population lives in 9 states, and those 9 states are all big states and decide the fate of our country, what about the other 41 states which are very different? In contrast with the electoral college, about 12 states are swing states and range from large states to small states. It ends up being more fair through the electoral college. Why should I want 9 states vote for the president who only helps their state issues when we can have a system where 12 states differing in size can even out the selfishness of each state voting for their corresponding president
That’s wrong as a matter of history: The framers of the Constitution were concerned primarily with ensuring that the president wasn’t selected by uneducated commoners. The electors were meant to be a deliberative body of intelligent, well-informed men who would be immune to corruption.
Although that counter-argument is true, that does not mean that a side effect was to protect the interests of the smaller states. Think about the Virginia plan and the New Jersey plan which were all about balancing the power. They truly believed in balancing power and the electoral college, although was made to keep uneducate people from voting, it also was made to balance the power
President DonaldTrump’s hands-off response to the virus
I don't think the response was "hands-off" He put a ban on china travel 10 days after the first covid case in the US, he eventually put a pan on Europe when cases increased there. He ordered a small outdoor hospital to be built in NYC for covid positive patients. He ordered a Navy boat to be docked in the NYC harbor to shelter non-covid surgery recovery patients, so they wouldn't be in the same hospital as them. He announced Operation Warpspeed which made it easier for private pharmaceutical companies to research vaccines. Lastly, he gave New York 30,000 ventilators when they actually ended up only using 4,000. So no, I would not say his beginning response was "hands-off".