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No, not really. The actual idea behind the Electoral College (and Senators prior to the 17th Amendment) was so the state Hickle Dickle is in, collectively as a sovereign unit could have its needs heard, as expressed by its state legislature. It was basically intended to work like a parliamentary system (where the prime minister is chosen by members of parliament themselves, not by vote of the public), except with the power given to each of the state legislatures instead of Congress, for enhanced Federalism/separation of powers.
Electors don't exist to change the balance the power between urban and rural; that's a side-effect. Their real purpose is to compensate for the fact that different states have different legislative structures [for example: Nebraska is unicameral!] with wildly different ratios of constituents per legislator. They couldn't do "one legislator, one vote" and have it be fair (read: normalized by population across states), so they did the next best thing and gave each state's legislature a number of elector slots equal to that state's representation in Congress, and let them choose people to fill those slots however they wanted.
People think the Electoral College and the Senate don't work right, and that's because they really don't. But that's not because they were designed poorly for what they were intended to do (limit "mob rule" and provide a voice for States as sovereign entities/the middle layer in the federalist separation of powers), but because we've subsequently fucked them up by bolting half-assed attempts at direct democracy to them in the form of the 17th Amendment, the Reapportionment Act of 1929, and state legislators abdicating their power to appoint electors and choosing them by statewide popular vote instead.
At this point, IMO, either implementing direct democracy properly (abolishing the Electoral College and the Senate) or going back to the original design would be an improvement over the broken status quo!