No, it's designed the way it is to stop the people from making decisions,because the founding fathers didn't trust the American public. There was no left or right wing back then.
Today, it definitely favors the GOP, but that's only because the current political climate with the GOP taking the South and the Midwest gives them more guaranteed electoral votes than the Democrat strongholds in the Northeast and the West Coast.
Bush won the election, but more people in Florida intended to vote for the Vice President.