> Electoral college is giving more and more power to low population states and somehow that is by design despite the house being capped for a century. I'll agr

> Electoral college is giving more and more power to low population states and somehow that is by design despite the house being capped for a century. I'll agree with your second point, but not this one. In the Constitutional Convention of 1787, one of the issues ("how to elect the president") was tasked to the "Committee of Eleven on Postponed Matters", which came up with the Electoral College. The founding fathers gave the low-population states a bone in order to create something that all of the colonies/states could/would ratify. It is affirmative action for states where few people want to live. And it was "by design" at the time of ratification of the Constitution. It was, however, designed as a compromise, as was allowance of slavery and the 3/5s of a person that each slave represented for Congressional Districts.