Help out a non American. Isn't this winner take all part of the electoral college part of the problem? Shouldn't things be more split along the lines of the actual vote?

I don't understand what's really wrong with representation that is approximately proportional to the vote.

@human3500 Look up gerrymandering.

Here's one article on it, I skimmed, so can't vouch for all of it ... or not:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/electoral-college-trump-biden-2024-b2475958.html

The Electoral College is a ‘bad’ and ‘undemocratic’ system. So why do we still use it?

In the most powerful democracy in the world, two of its last four leaders have been chosen by a minority of voters. The US’s Electoral College system is now functioning far from how its creators originally intended, Gustaf Kilander writes

^{Gustaf Kilander (The Independent)}