The Electoral College's function is to prevent the succession of less populous states from the union. It was a compromise between a pure democracy and a pure state-compact.
One extreme wanted things based on populous vote alone, but that would mean that large urban cities would become 'in-groups' that decided all elections. On the other hand the other extreme wanted each state, no matter the size, to have 1 vote/point per state. But this would mean if you got a state with low population rural centers to have more sway. So that's when the Senate was designed for the later (points based on pure statehood), and the House was designed for the former (points based on populous). The total is the number of points each state gets toward picking a president.
In this way, everyone hates the system, but not enough to leave it.
The Electoral College's function is to prevent the succession of less populous states from the union. It was a compromise between a pure democracy and a pure state-compact.
One extreme wanted things based on populous vote alone, but that would mean that large urban cities would become 'in-groups' that decided all elections. On the other hand the other extreme wanted each state, no matter the size, to have 1 vote/point per state. But this would mean if you got a state with low population rural centers to have more sway. So that's when the Senate was designed for the later (points based on pure statehood), and the House was designed for the former (points based on populous). The total is the number of points each state gets toward picking a president.
In this way, everyone hates the system, but not enough to leave it.