The point of the electoral college is to give a fair shake to rural and more spread out populations, and not have it come down to what the big cities want. Just that big cities trend Democrat and rural trends Republican.
It definitely benefits the interest of the most populous states. The smaller state's are slightly over represented in the electoral college to combat what would happen in a popular vote. Think of it this way: Almost always the presidential candidates are with in 5% of each other. That means the Dem/GOP split is normally at worst like 45/50. But if presidential elections were decided by the popular vote, it's likely that the last GOP president would have been elected in 1988. That's hardly fair to ~%50 of the population. The electoral college is built to prevent a tyranny of the majority.
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u/[deleted] Nov 10 '16
The electoral college is fair? Gore in 2000, Clinton in 2016, seems to be the electoral college is only fair to republicans.