text: In the Electoral College's defense, the Electoral College, as illustrated by Richard A. Posner, "restores some of the weight in the political balance that large states lose by virtue of the mal-apportionment of the Senate decreed in the Constitution," meaning that a presidential candidate will give more attention to a larger state than a smaller state. Without the Electoral College, the president wouldn't have "trans-regional appeal (paragraph 19, Richard A. Posner)," meaning that no one region has enough electoral votes to elect a president so the Electoral College requires the "trans-regional appeal."