Conservatism in America would be toast without the Electoral College. We'd be in the second term of the Gore presidency and essentially a bigger Canada.
But Gore would never have been the DemocRATS presidential candidate if it were not for the Electoral College. They would have nominated another big city northern leftist like Dukakis. Gore was on the ticket to try to peal off a few southern states. It work in 1976, 1992, and 1996, but by 2000 Gore had drifted to the left of the DemocRAT party. He was no longer a believable "centrist". Southerners no longer believed the charade that he was culturally a southerner. He was unable to win a single southern state. If he had just won his own state of Tennessee, he would have won the election in 2000.