text: Why because in 2012 Oboma received 61.7 percent of the electoral votes. His percentage with popular vote was 51.3 percent, so if you voted for him electoral college bumped up his percent by a good amount. The electoral college also helps avoid problems of the elections such as no candidat receives a majority of the votes that were cast. Electoral college also restores some of the weight in the political balance that larger states lose by vitue of the ma-apportionment, witch means to me that larger states have larger percentages and between the two candidates the percents can be close so the electoral college just helps us pick one of the candidates.