2) The winner-take-all system in the electoral college is each state gets so many electoral votes based upon their population. When people within those states vote for the candidate that they choose, the person with the most votes gets all of the electoral votes in that state. While the other candidate(s) get zero electoral votes from that state. How candidates run their campaigns is seriously affected by the winner-take-all system in the electoral college. The campaigns are affected because a candidate is not going to spend their time campaigning in a state that they are obviously going to lose, an example being the opponent’s home state. Candidates are going to spend most of their campaigning time, money and resources into the swing states,
