Well the reason for the college was pretty simple, with everyone living in their own 13 little worlds, with no circulating newspaper, no national parties or communications about different candidates, they would tend to elect their local guy. So the state with the most population would have a monopoly on candidates and they would just keep getting elected without any regard for the other states. Fashioned after the College of Cardinals in the Vatican, you think the US Capitol looks like the Vatican by coincidence.