The Electoral College is a political abomination. As I have written before, rather than protecting the influence of small states, it grants overwhelming power to a handful of states that randomly happen to have a close partisan balance, which are mostly fairly large. Worse, it allows popular vote losers to win — which has happened twice in the last 20 years. Indeed, theoretically a candidate could lose the popular vote four to one and still win the electoral vote.
Moreover, since 2012 the divergence between the Electoral College and the popular vote has been steadily growing. As I’ll show below, while Joe Biden won a clear victory in the popular vote, he just barely squeaked through in the Electoral College.
