Exactly. The best way to understand the Electoral College is to look at a map of the U.S. showing who won the county-by-county voting. It's overwhelmingly red. The Founding Fathers wanted the President to be someone who had WIDESPREAD support.
Another way to explain it, to get people to (hopefully) think about what and why “democracy” is an exceedingly bad idea.
Imagine for the sake of argument there were global elections. Would everyone else want India and China alone to decide everything for the rest of the world?
California and New York have far too much influence on the rest of the country as it is.
The various states are running into huge problems as well, at the county level. “One man one vote” was how an important US supreme court decision was described, that states formerly used in a similar way to prevent one or two cities from dominating the rest of the state. Each county had representation in the state legislature, typically.
Leftists decry such mechanisms as “Anti Democratic” and they are absolutely correct about that. This was on purpose, it isn’t some glaring oversight. The founders were smart. Democracy is an idiotic form of government, history is clear on that, it always leads to agitation, license, and discontent. Mobocracy. Then a dictatorship. You can vote your way into “free &$it” socialism, but you can’t vote your way out.
Funny, that.