text: Electoral College restores some of the weight in the political balance that large states ( by population) lose by virtue of the mal-aportioment of the senate decreed in the constitution. so, other things being equal, a large state gets more attention from presidential candidates in a campaign than a small state does. The Electoral College avoids the problem of elections in which no candidate receive a majority of the votes cast. there is pressure for run-off elections when no candidates win a majority of the votes cast; the pressure is reduce by Electoral College, which invariably produces a clear winner. voters in presidential elections are people who want to express a political prefences rather than people who think that a single vote may decide an election.    Hi, i'm Luke, and one day I was working at the bank and my friend, Don ask "Hey Luke, you want to go to Europe on a cattle boat with me!" How could say no to that type of question? I'v always want to do this.