Is the Electoral College a fair system?

It is a fair system if you believe in giving more power to the little guy. The electoral college is based on each state having the same number of votes that correspond to the combined total of US Senators and US Representatives from that State. The founding fathers (no mothers were allowed to vote back then) wanted to avoid the possibility that high population states like New York, Machusetts and Pennsylvania would vote overwhelmingly for one candidate who would lose to the other candidate in all the smaller and, at that time, more rural and less populated states like Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Delaware and Rhode Island. The Electoral College is an effort to even the playing field. Nowadays the Electoral College could prevent the election of a candidate who went after the popular vote by concentrating his campaign exclusively in urban areas and states with the highest populations, eg. California, New York, Texas, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Florida. People in North Dakota, Nebraska, Wyoming and Montana would be left out in the cold. They would be ignored completely and suffer for it in every budgetary, social and economic policy generated by Washington.