No, you are mistaken, Mike. The Senate is protection for small states, not the electoral college. The electoral college was put in place to compensate for the slow speed of communication that existed at the time. Like the House of Representatives, it attempts to match representation based on population.

However, this is where it is breaking down. The votes of the electors no longer correlate correctly to a states population. A vote from a citizen of Wyoming has more value than the vote of three citizens of California!

Is that right? What happened to "One person, one vote" that is at the core of democracy? That isn't protection, it is outright unfair! My vote shouldn't count less just because of what state I choose to live in. We now have the technology to make the Presidential election a popular vote as it should be. It is a reform that all parties, Republican, Democrat, or otherwise, should be interested in.