Good catch.  It'll be patched in.  

The electoral college doesn't need a revamp... it needs to be removed all together.

Thanks for the catch.  This will be resolved in the first patch (still determining ETA on that).

What I'd like to see is the option to have the electoral college voting wieghts in each state dynamically changing as the game progesses.

So, where did DC's electoral votes go? What happens in the game if there is a tie

I know how it works IRL, I'm asking about the game haha

Yeah, kind of like how we elected Al Gore but we see how that worked out.

I think FDR was one of our best ever...also about the electoral college, it ensures states elect the president (states rights) but in order to change it we need a constitutional amendment which also falls under states rights and let them decide amendments, lol asking an entity to limit its power then they have no reason too LAWL...

If it's like PM2008, DC's Electoral College votes are assigned to Maryland.  

Maryland should have 10.  If Maryland has 13, then there's your answer.  

What about states that are neither big or contested - do they not matter? 

How much attention will Utah or Vermont get in this election? Let's not pretend the electoral college somehow answers that problem. It just designates new important states that, yes, often are based on size. Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania - they're all electorally rich and contested states.

Hell, California was once considered the most important swing-state prior to it solidifying as a Democratic state. The only thing that's changed is that it's now not considered a swing-state, but if it still was, you and I both know each candidate would spend a considerable amount of time there trying to win its 55 electoral votes.

Yes, in theory, the electoral college brings more clout to smaller states - but it also discriminates against safe states. Obama, Romney, they're not going to be making campaign stops in Utah or Wyoming or Illinois or Tennessee because those states don't matter.

So, because the system is not about necessarily every state, you have a situation that arises where the focal point is on Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Michigan, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, and Virginia. That's 9 states out of 50 - or 18%. Not exactly a system that favors the entire country.

When you get down to it, we still have a system in place that favors certain states and while those states might be smaller, their importance in any given election is greater than a solid majority of the country. 

Not to say just leaving it up to the popular vote is the answer - but that this fallacy the electoral college levels the playing field is just not true. It only levels it for a handful of states, while it also alienates a great deal of other states - big, medium or small.

You do raise a good point, but I still think the Electoral College really is the way to go.  

As I said before, if anything, I'd tweak the system to have all the states allot the EC votes to resemble what Maine and Nebraska do.  Have a candidate win 2 points for carrying that state's total popular vote, and they win 1 point for each congressional district they win the popular vote in. Granted, you'd still have states like Rhode Island, for example, that are still gonna be safe states for all available points, but it would add an interesting situation to states like California, Texas, and New York.  No longer are these three states "safe," because Republicans can win areas of these blue states, and Democrats can get areas in the big red states.  

It would demand candidates focus more time/energy/effort on more states, because you'd have purple districts in most states.  

Maine and Nebraska do it right.  

Just to weigh in to the debate. I'd have a proportional system, that doesn't require all the electoral seats of each state to go to the same party. Therefore you could have states that are split down the middle with votes, especially the battleground states. this would also mean that if you live in a safe seat of the opposite party, your vote isn't wasted.