I just want an actual example of how the electoral college balanced the power between big and little states. I think we can leave out the three elections in the 1800s that the EC gave to the loser of the popular vote.

That leaves Bush II and Trump. How have those two inept clowns helped the small states in ways that the winners of the popular vote would not have?

You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the old model obsolete.
R. Buckminster Fuller