This is a weak argument. The reason for the electoral college, like so many things laid out in the constitution, is to provide checks and balances, int his case on the larger states. It's not about counties. It's about holding back "the violence of factions" frequently mentioned in the federalist papers.
I am not dead-set against reforming the EC altogether. But I think we ought to be very careful about how we tamper with it, if we tamper with it. America has had a record of stability that few other nations can dream of matching. We shouldn't be trash-talking our constitutional framework, we should be talking it up!
America is a few hundred years old. There are many many more nations that have been stable for much longer.
That and the founders supported the EC as a republican anti-democratic measure so the wise heads of the EC would overrule any heated poor decision by the ignorant masses. What would the EC do in 2016 according to precedent? Hmmmmmm......
The founders didn't allow for direct election of senators, land requirements to vote, onnly male sufferage, etc. Their views on direct democracy are grossly anachronistic by today's standard of relatively educated and informed electorate, and would be rebuked by 90% of Republican "originalists".
There's only one reason for the EC today, and it's neither philosophical nor constitutional, but simply political.
