2016 Postmortem

The electoral college has a similar effect to the Senate. The Senate is essentially a group that represents "land masses." A state with a 400,000 population has exactly the number of Senators as a State with 30,000,000 people. It's why we see these maps that look like we're an overwhelmingly red country, but in truth, we're more equal, because population concentrations are very blue.

By the same token, the EC negates huge overages in New York, and California, and to be fair, Texas too, though that's being whittled down a little at a time. Overages in red states, even overwhelming ones percentage wise, in states like Alabama, are nearly insignificant, to California. But does California get an extra package of electoral college votes because of that? Nope.

It all goes back to the founders essentially giving property owners most of the power. And it's going to be hard to get rid of these things, if we ever can.