"It prevented a very populous state with an eccentric take on the issues facing the country from leading the rest of the states by the nose into LaLa Land."

Really, Marty, E?  Earlier you called that state, "The People's Republic of California."    If anyone to the left of you, either politically or ecclesiastically, is a red, then you must be mighty happy Herr Trump won.  Also, the Electoral College was designed to preserve the power of the slave states, where slaves were counted as three-fifths of a human being but couldn't vote.  Since white males were fewer in the slave states, the E.C. served their interests.  How appropriate that it brought another white racist to power.