@DigitalTaoist@Snowshadow@GottaLaff It is first-past-the-post, winner-takes-all. The Electoral College is a confounding feature which, at the best of times, tends to amplify the voices of lightly-populated rural states and contested states. Essentially none of the reasons the Electoral College was created to address are still valid today.
In an ideal world, if such an utter mountebank as Donald Trump were to somehow win the election, the Electoral College could overrule the vote and select a less harmful person of better character as President. In the real world, we all know that's not going to happen.