[bobbcat]

Yes, there are electors. That is more precisely who you are truly voting for. The number of electors corresponds to the number of senate and house of reps seats. This is among the reasons our gov't is not really a democracy, it is a representative republic.

The EC is designed to even out the playing field, as it were, between the densely populated coastal areas/New England and the more sparsely populated areas of the "heartland."

I think that if it were not for the EC, our presidents would be elected by the likes of New England, New York, Chicago, Miami, and Los Angeles. Thank goodness it is not that way.