Stop mate , you lost . <| sep |> this hit too close to home . <| sep |> They are a glam rock band lost in the 80 s . It ' s kinda like an epic version of guns and roses that never went away . They glorify the tropes of being an 80 s hair band . And tits . Their logo is two in the pink , one in the stink . Did I mention tits ? <| sep |> But the other candidate was a liar too , and this one was funnier . <| sep |> I really don ' t find this rationale for the electoral college to be very believable , because the number of electoral votes each state gets is determined by population ! If the founders were so concerned about small states being drowned out by big ones , why would they have chosen a system that is just a proxy for population , instead of something like the Senate ' s equal representation ? The two explanations I ' ve seen that I find credible are States ' rights The electoral college allowed the states to decide on their own how to choose who they wanted for president . It wasn ' t until after the Civil War that every state used a popular vote in the early days , many states had their legislatures choose the electors . And even today not every state uses a winnertakeall model , as Nebraska and Maine split their votes by congressional district . Slavery . Southern states were able to count slaves as 35 of a person when it came to deciding representation in Congress and thus number of electoral votes . This boosted their influence vs a popular vote , which they might never have agreed to .