text: Ones against have said "the large states get more attention from presidental candidates in a campaign rather than a small state". They also have said "the winner of the take it all system in each state, candidates dont spend time in states they know they have no chance of winning, seventeen states didnt see the candidates at all, including South Carolina and Rhode Island.. they didnt even get a single ad". But the electoral college restores some of the weight in the political balance that the large states lose in population.