OK. It's actually quite simple, but the math doesn't fit into a meme, nor frankly to the comment character limit on imgflip, which makes it annoying to argue with someone who has already made up their minds without hearing it out.
The problem is that after the Industrial Revolution, for the first time in history, more people lived in cities than they did in the countryside. So the mathematical problem with the Electoral College was a problem that the Founding Fathers knew about - and documented - but they assumed that it was too minor an effect to be an issue. On that point they were mistaken. They were mortal men, how were they to know how rapidly cities would grow over the next hundred years?
The problem goes as follows:
The Electoral College = 2 Senators for every state regardless of size + 1 Representative for every 700,000 people in America (by today's numbers).
Electoral College voting power = electoral college votes per capita of each state. You can work this out yourself on any spreadsheet using publicly available data: divide each state's EC votes by the population of the state. Some websites do this for you but I'd rather you crunch the numbers yourself so you're not under anyone's analytical bias.
So in a state where huge cities are, the 2 senate votes count for little when there's 48 or 50 reps, and the voting power waters down over their population.
In a state with no metropolitan centers, 2/3 of the electoral votes come from senate math anyway so the electoral influence doesn't reduce by orders of magnitude.
The result is that the most impact a group of 700,000 people can have on the election of a President is by living in a 3-point state. One man one vote becomes weighted towards places with fewer people living in them.
The bottom line is that everything about the US Constitution sets up a fight between urban America and rural America, and gives heavier punching gloves to rural America. By design.
Wait - don't respond just yet!
Because you are talking to me, mikkiscorpion, and not to someone else, you have an out. And it is an out you should think seriously about, because it's a third option we should all be talking about, and it's this.
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