Priest crafted 855 neck beats opus by a hug margin . <| sep |> I meant the DuPont Corporation . They aren ' t exactly good people . <| sep |> The EC exists because it was written into the constitution in order to subvert democracy when it produced a candidate unfavorable to the political elitelol no . That ' s not why the electoral college existsA third idea was to have the president elected by a direct popular vote . Direct election was rejected not because the Framers of the Constitution doubted public intelligence but rather because they feared that without sufficient information about candidates from outside their State , people would naturally vote for a favorite son from their own State or region . At worst , no president would emerge with a popular majority sufficient to govern the whole country . At best , the choice of president would always be decided by the largest , most populous States with little regard for the smaller ones . They were very worried about one state having an outsized influence upon the other states in the union by electing presidents that fit the values of one state but would damage other states . The electoral college was specifically designed to disallow LA County and NYC from deciding every president ever while rural America gets jammed up the ass .