I know what the electoral college is, and it's a broken system.

The top five most populous states comprise less than 40% of the population, it includes blue states, red states and a swing state, so campaigning there alone is not sufficient to win any election. Besides, the fact that historically the candidates are rarely more than one or two million votes apart in the popular vote, in this election even less, shows that the candidates could not afford to neglect any potential voters under a popular vote system.

The electoral college system not only forgoes equality and makes some persons' votes weigh more than others, but it also makes many of these votes worth nothing at all, since 50% plus one vote is all it takes for a candidate to gain all the state's electoral college votes in almost all states. This means that in their misguided attempt at equal representation they've created a system with even less representation in which a democrat's vote in a red state, or a republican's vote in a blue state, are worth nothing. All it does is ensure that instead of the candidates focusing their attention on reaching the maximum number of voters, they'll spend the majority of their campaign on a few swing states, who more often than not determine the election's results by themselves.