There's a reason we have two houses in the legislative branch, one with representatives assigned by population and one with representatives assigned by territory. If you're a state, you get two senators. Period. If you're a state, you get however many congressmen as you're entitled to according to census. Period. "Congressman Ted Stevens" doesn't get to build a bazillion-dollar "bridge to nowhere." Only Senator Ted Stevens gets to do that. This is why we have three branches of government: the one that passes the laws is based around the system above. The one that carries out the laws is won by "popular vote." The one that determines whether the laws are fair is appointed by the other two so that they can be "above politics." There isn't anything fundamentally wrong with the way it works other than that an instantaneous national election does not need delegates in order to certify it. There is no valid function to the electoral college. At all. Presuming there to be one does not make it so.