We could just as readily say “Let’s give EACH STATE ONE VOTE!” and the DEMS would NEVER win another election — But to balance out the different # of population, instead of one vote per state, we give them more electoral votes to account for the difference. It is a weighted balancing between the RIGHTS of a State an entity and the population of the country as a whole.

Maybe a 1 vote per state would be more fair since since CA gets 55 votes — which means CA has almost 20 [TWENTY] times as much say in the election as of each of the 7 states of Alaska, Delaware, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Vermont, and Wyoming.

Even if you count ALL of the votes of those States together, CA still has THREE TIMES as many votes as those SEVEN states together. CA also currenlty has ALMOST 2x as many votes as New York, and 2x as many as FLORIDA. CA has BY FAR WAAAAAAY more votes than any other state.

The word democracy doesn’t appear at all in our Constitution nor in any of of the States’ constitutions. In a democracy, the majority rules, and that ultimately becomes group-think or mob rule. Our founding fathers had the genius and foresight to create the electoral college to insure that all the people had inalienable rights that could not be taken away or infringed on by a mob, person or government. And the electoral college was put in place to ensure that the largest groups of people do not control other groups simply by numbers.

If we went by majority rules, many of the rights of minorities would never have been able to be defended and put into law.  Groups that are marginalized would be forever held in the margin. Were we to mistake our Democratic Republic for a democracy and let the sheer total numbers be the rule, we would have no guiding stable principles. We would be subject to the whims of the group in a moment.

And thank God, alas, our country was founded as a Republic, one Nation Under God, to be ruled by the Principles of The Constitution. We must never be so blind and ignorant as to think that just because the masses think one way that they must be right. We must be guided by Principles that are larger than ourselves.  Those Principles must always be The Constitution. If we do not do that, then the very thing that we were founded upon is destroyed. The Electoral College represents the Principle of States recognizing the individuality of each state as well as weighting their opinion by giving them more electoral votes to represent the size of their population. Congress is designed the same way by having 2 chambers. One chamber — The Senate — has the same number of reps per state, TWO.  While the number of reps in The House is based on the population of the given State.

The electoral college is not going anywhere as long as we are The United States of America.