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The World Series analogy is easy to understand (i.e., it doesn't matter that one team may score more total runs -- analagous to the popular vote -- it's the team that wins the most games in the series -- analagous to the electoral votes -- that wins the contest). This is easy to understand and most everyone would agree this is the only way -- the fair way -- to determine the victor.

Problem is, with the size and far-reaching (into states' matters) grasp of the federal government and the corresponding severely weakened condition of states' rights -- in combination with the high level of historical and political ignorance of far too many Americans (as the study of American history, displaced by current events and "feelings studies", is barely touched on in many public schools), on the altar of "equality" most voters do not see the United States as a collection of states (i.e., a Republic). They see it as a single large country that is governed and controlled by a strong central national government. This is why so many people are unable to apply the clear World Series analogy to the purpose of the Electoral College vote.