I am getting very tired of all the EC bashing.

The Democrats just got lucky that it affected a non swing state.

even though fewer Ohioans voted that year.

They had 2 main reasons for creating the EC:

1. They believed that the electors would insure that only a qualified person becomes President and would counter a demagogue's manipulation of the majority of the population. Our founders feared a tyranny of the majority as well as that of a minority.


2. The EC was designed to give extra power to smaller states.

The Constitution does not prevent the awarding of EC votes to be split. The current winner take-all method came about during the 19th century by the individual states themselves. Only Maine and Nebraska split their EC votes by Congressional District today, but in theory, all states could do the same thing.

in FL that was the issue.
I generally have come to the conclusion that the EC is not that bad. Either way, certain states will dominate. NY, CA, TX and FL would be the most important states instead of the swing states in the electoral college. And the swing states can sometimes change but the true blue and true red states really won't.
The only time the electoral college did not follow the popular vote was in the 1800's. I don't count 2000. I still say if Obama wins the electoral college, he will win a small majority of the popular vote.