Your analysis has nothing at all to do with what the map represents. "Large population centers" does not equal "corruption" any more than the many corrupt small rural communities that have long existed in America. Corruption is not unique to the size of a community and the Framers had no such thing in mind. The Electoral College was designed to give smaller *states,* not rural communities, a slight advantage to entice them to join the union. The Founders didn't conceive of this ridiculous notion you have of "taxpayer money buying votes" especially since it's rural areas that invariably are heavily subsidized with taxpayer money, not urban which pay their way. Pelosi, Waters and Schumer are elected officials just like Ryan, McConnell and Graham. All are equal. For you to point only to Democrats as fitting your "corrupt" model means you are motivated only by partisanship in this discussion.

The red on the map is irrelevant, since there were 3 million more votes in the blue areas.