text: Popular vote would lead to members of different states having the same amount of power, while the electoral collage leads to unequal representation.  Because of the Senate's two representitives per state, people in less populous states have more power.  For example, California has 2 Senate representitives and 35 million voters, and Wyoming, with a much smaller population, has the same amount of representitives in the Senate, leading to a Wyoming resident having much more than a Californian one.