Crooked Hillary!

If the popular vote was the sole decider in each election then population dense cities would be the only part of the entire country that would have any true representation. California, New York, and a few others would be among the few states that would get representation. With the electoral college in place every state gets some guaranteed representation. Trump managed to get parts of the Rust Belt that haven't voted Red in close to thirty years and the swing they gave helped decide this election.

This is a ridiculous argument. The electoral college doesn't increase rural representation at all. The required number of senators and limited number of house members does! The real problem with the electoral college, and some state primaries, is the sheer number of "winner takes all" states. This marginalizes the minority party of either color in many states. Instead of having a president competing for votes across the country, you have candidates pandering to a handful of "swing states" while the rest of the country is left stagnant and ignored.

There is nothing more frustrating in a presidential election than knowing that your vote doesn't matter because you live in the wrong state.

We could argue the merits of rural vs urban representation in Congress all day, but there is no reason to skew votes for a president that is intended to represent the ENTIRE country. The founding father's reasons for creating the Electoral College are archaic and defunct in an age where communication from Alaska to New Hampshire happens instantaneously.