text: The way this is set up is so that "no region has enough electoral votes to elect a president". This is a great thing because imagine if it was just majority vote; the most populated states could just vote who they wanted to be president and it would be done. No other states would be able to compete and on top of that the canidates for president would only have to campain in the populated states where they know they are already liked. The Electoral College is there so things aren't done in a jiffy. With this system the canidates actually have to work on trying to gain supporters in states where they may not be liked in. It also makes the American people think about all the options and decide on a bigger scale that requires more then just "one vote" to win an election.