Mathematical proof of the merits of the Electoral College:
http://discovermagazine.com/2004/sep/math-against-tyranny
Brief summary - the World Series is decided by games won; not by runs scored.
Good find!
From the source:
...James Madison, chief architect of our nation’s electoral college, wanted to protect each citizen against the most insidious tyranny that arises in democracies: the massed power of fellow citizens banded together in a dominant bloc.
As Madison explained in The Federalist Papers (Number X), “a well-constructed Union” must, above all else, “break and control the violence of faction,” especially “the superior force of an . . . overbearing majority.”
In any democracy, a majority’s power threatens minorities. It threatens their rights, their property, and sometimes their lives...