The strange history of the electoral college and how the US has elected presidents.

I was taught, many years ago, that the electoral college was planned so as to give large states extra per-capita power, to compensate for the extra per-capita power that small states get by having as many senators as a large state. But perhaps that was a rationalization based on the fact that the electoral college had that effect in the mid-20th century.

I support the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact.