text: A presidential canidate can have more popular votes then the other candiate, meaning votes favored by the people, but if a president has more electoral votes, which is votes by the electors then they are elected as the president. The benefits of the electoral college is this, 1. Presidents who are favored greatly in a certain region of the U.S., will most likely not have a electoral appeal. That means such as president Romney can have a strong appeal in the south, but he will gain no electoral vote. 2. " The electoral college avoids the problem of elections in which no candidate recevies a majority of the votes cast. For example, Nixon in 1968 and Clinton in 1992 both had a 43 percent plurality of the popular votes, while winning a majority in the Electoral College. There is pressure for run-off elections when no candidate wins a majority of the votes cast, that pressure, which would greatly complicate the presedential election process, is reduced by the Electoral College, which invaraiably produces a clear winner." 3. "The Electoral 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 Consistution... The popular vote was very close in Florida nevertheless Obama, who won that vote, got 29 electoral votes. So other things equal, a large satae gets more attention than a small state does.