The Electoral College was originally devised to prevent a few large population centers from determining the presidential election, which is basically the election of the Federal Government.
It still isn’t working as originally intended, because all the electors cast their votes according to the majority popular vote in their state, which is still dominated by a few large population centers.
Thankfully, this still mitigates the popular vote enough to allow a populist or conservative president to win on occasion.
If electors were truly elected and cast their votes according to the popular vote of their respective DISTRICTS, the Democrats wouldn’t have a chance, as plainly revealed by the “County” maps of elections in the U.S.
The vast preponderance of counties in the U.S. almost always chooses the Republican.
Absolutely.
What became of the “rogue” elector in WA?
We should assign 1 elector for each county in the US. That would make it a little more fair!