[patrickg_zill]

Read up on why the EC exists. I think the term that applies is "concurrent majority".

If you want a counter-example, you can look at small town and rural upstate NY and realize how their concerns are always neglected because the sheer number of NYC voters drowns out any chance they have to be heard as part of the electorate.

[int_19h]

EC exists because the states had to agree on a mutually acceptable compromise (between large and small states, and also between slave and non-slave states) when forming US. It doesn't make it inherently valuable - it was a compromise solution, which pretty much by definition means that it's not a perfect design.

[mikeyouse]

It's a shame we don't have some sort of national representation determined by the popular vote that's independent of state size or economic power...