The Electorial college

Every time a person is elected President of the United States by winning the Electoral College vote while losing the popular vote,  a cry goes up claiming the Electoral Collage is defective and the losing candidate got robbed, etc but the truth is the Electoral College system actually preformed as it was supposed to.
  We have two houses:  the representatives and the Senate.  Each state has two Senators and each state has a number of Representatives based on population.  This was done for a reason.  If every thing was by population, States like Kansas, Iowa and even North Carolina would be at the mercy of the big states like California and New York.  All States are equal in the Senate. 
  The Electoral College follows the same logic.  For example, if there is one state that has 12 Electoral College votes and 7 smaller states that have a total of fourteen.  Let's say just for arguments sake, that the total population of the big state was 10,000,000 and the total population of the smaller states was 10,000,000.
  Let's say that a candidate for President favored a policy that would be devastating to the six rural states but was good for the other state  and  was widely popular with the big state.  If, say, 8,000,000 people voted for the man from the big state, and 3,000,000 from the small but non-rural state giving them 11,000,000 votes and 14 electoral votes.  That seems fair.
    But say that he wasn't popular in the big state and only carried the vote by 5,200,000 to 4,800,000,  The candidate could have been as equally controversial in the small sates and although losing all 7 smaller states, he margins were small with 5,1000,000 for and 4,900,000 against.  The total vote would have been 10,3000,000 for and 9,700,000 against but he still would have won 14 to 12.
It could have well been that he won huge in the big state, say 8,000,000 to 2,000,000 but had a much closer race in the seven smaller state losing 4,000,000 to 6,000,000 giving him a total of 12,000,000 for and 8,000,000 against him yet he lost the election even though he won the popular vote.  The Electoral College was designed with the protection of the smaller states in mind