AliHajiSheik
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I said counties, not congressional districts. I shouldn't have assumed that merely because they are usually conflated, that they always are. Presidential elections are usually divied up by county, and a straight 1 to 1 conversion from congressional districts to electoral votes wouldn't work since each state has 2 extra votes.
The point that anything besides a straight popular vote is attempting to make some votes count more than others still stands.
I'm not really sure what you mean. What exactly does it mean that Presidential elections are divided by county? County has nothing to do with it, other than perhaps the administration of the polling place staff is administered by that level. If you are referring to the USA Today map by county, that is just for their own convenience to draw maps at that level, they could have done ZIP Code or any other Census segment.
Today, Presidential elections are about electoral votes. You may want it to change, but it isn't. My Congressperson and your Congressperson have the same number of votes and the number of people they represent are reasonably similar.
If it were about counties, then 1 county=1 vote would be as you describe--votes counting different amounts. Based on congressional districts, the urban/rural distinction is meaningless.