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I know I'm not Radar, but I'm reminded of a lecture I heard once in college that explained one need for the electoral college...
Simply put, the EC cuts down on the feasibility of corruption. Let's say you know a guy at a polling location in Louisiana, and you have the ability to stuff the ballot box. So you put in 500,000 fake votes for Your Guy. What you get for your efforts is... the state of Louisiana, and no more. You could stuff the ballot box with 30 million votes, and it wouldn't matter.
Without the electoral college, Your Guy would win for sure, because votes are just votes. But with it, you would have to "know a guy" in a whole lot of states before you could truly rig the election to a significant degree.
I know elections are usually very close and can, in fact, hinge on one state, but one doesn't always know which state that's going to be. There are many that historically vote pretty evenly between the two parties.
Anyway, that was the lecture in a nutshell.
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