Always strive to learn something useful. --Sophocles

Like you, I was not 100% against the Electoral College, as it gives some smaller states a voice they otherwise wouldn't have. Looking at it more closely, it really gives a disproportionate voice to a handful of swing states. Tiny Wyoming, and huge California aren't in play, because they will go to one of the two parties, so no one puts much effort into either. Like you say, conservatives in California and liberals in Texas are equally without voice.