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No, I disagree. The electoral college does have more of a "leveling the playing field" than that. If your premise were true, the Democrats would have won the last two elections because they carried the coasts, where the largest cities with the most dense populations are. But since they only have a certain number of delegates, only winning those big cities and thus those states was not enough to carry the election. The candidate needs to win enough of the states with smaller, but significant, delegate counts to carry the election. If the electoral college goes away, candidates would only need to focus on (and care about) winning the most dense areas votes-wise, excluding everyone else from having a voice. It's really quite a brilliant system. Frustrating at times, sure, but brilliant nonetheless.
ETA: This was in response to AGDee's post, not Drolefille's. I forgot to quote & reply.
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