text: At any rate, most people say that the Electoral College is tuned as an anachronism, a person or a thing that seems to belong in the past and not fit in the present. The Electoral College restores some of the weight in the political balance nthat large states lose by virtue of the mal-apportion of the Senate decreed in the Constitution. The popular vote was very close in Florida (in 2012); nevertheless Obama, who won that vote, got 29 electoral votes. A win by the same margin in Wyoming would get the the winner only 3 electoral votes.