So leaving our elections up to L.A. and NYC.

Combined those might round up to 4% of the population of the United States. Explain again how they’ll control the outcome of a popular election?

Implicit in your argument is the self-evidently fair notion that the country should not be controlled by a minority … except that is precisely what the Electoral College allows and what the popular vote makes impossible. Under the EC, the president is effectively decided only by voters in a dozen or so swing states (which exact states are in play varies by year but the number is pretty consistent). Candidates literally don’t even campaign for votes in the other ~38 states, just sometimes making brief fundraising stops.

The founding fathers cobbled together a stop-gap system that placated the oh-so-varied interests of different groups of privileged white men. It wasn’t fair then and it has no moral justification in the present day. It’s an affront to the basic principles of self-government now that we’ve expanded “self” to finally mean all Americans.