You came away with an incomplete understanding of what Mark Levin said. The electoral college was intended to ensure that it was the states through the indirect action of the state legislatures, not the popular vote, that elected the president and vice president.
When you really examine how our system is supposed to work it becomes very clear how important the states really were. The State legislatures appointed Senators, the States chose electors who elect the President. The people vote for Congressmen.
I’m glad Lincoln freed the slaves, but he also destroyed the notion that we are a federation of the several states. Now we’re just a blob of demagoguery appealing to the mob. Technically still a Republic, we really are a democracy, and we are the worse for it.
“You came away with an incomplete understanding of what Mark Levin said.”
What I posted and what Levin stated, were one and the same. Almost verbatim.
The electoral college was intended to dilute the power of the large states in a presidential election.
“...action of the state legislatures, not the popular vote, that elected the president and vice president.”
Then why did they bother with a popular vote?