At the time, it didn't matter which States were more populace than others. The point for the electoral college was, like baddog said, they didn't want the most populace states, whichever they were at the time, AND in the future, to be able to have that much power at the expense of the least populace States. Say now, NY, California, Florida and Texas could elect, by popular vote, the President in every election due to the amount of people in theses States. The founding fathers, in their great wisdom, realized this was not right. Therefore created the electoral college to elect Presidents.
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