Sorry this is all mind numblingly wrong.
If the Presidential election went to a popular vote the voting patterns would be far different. You could take the election by winning less than 10 states. Which means the candidates would spend all their time in Ohio, California, Pennsylvania, New York, Florida, Michigan, and Texas.
They would pretty much ignore the rest of the country. On top of that the hand outs would also be focused on those states. So govt contracts and everything else would gravitate towards those few states.