Popular vote is just not a useful metric. No one knows what the popular vote would be if that was the metric that mattered. Would more Californian Republicans s

Popular vote is just not a useful metric. No one knows what the popular vote would be if that was the metric that mattered. Would more Californian Republicans step out? Would Austin, Texas Democrats vote? Would people in small, less populous states STOP voting? Who knows? To say a metric we aren't optimising for shows X is not really anything more than a side effect of something else.