“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?
You can't render a complex reason for the Electoral College into a single sentence. A popular vote was the means to establish the Vox Populi for the states in a time when communications were sketchy at best. Then as today the winner of electoral college vote and not the popular vote becomes president.