text: The Elecotoral College restores some of the weight in the political balance that large states (by population) lose by virtue of the mal- apportionment of the Senate decreed in the Constitution. For example, another source" In 2012, the popular vote was very close in Florida; nevertheless Obama, who won that vote, got 29 electoral votes. A victory by the same margin in Wyoming would net the winner only 3 electoral votes." Large states gets more attention from presidential candidates in a campaign than a small state does.