History of the electoral college READ....

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/douglas-an...97066.html

This allows for each voting in the college to vote their conscious. We are an indirect democracy or a "republic". Everyone condemns the electoral college without understanding it. It is simply one check on power among many. Without it we could have mob rule by vote. Getting rid of the electoral college right now with all three branches under GOP control and their 36 years of gerrymandering, it could increase their consolidation of power even more. There is a tool in it to allow the college to vote anonymously in so that the public nor do the members know who voted for whom. 

It is possible, although not likely since most voters don't understand the constitution, to have just enough in the college if convinced by the sane voters to flip their vote for someone other than the winner.

The electoral college is fundamentally anti-democratic and a means to impose the tyranny of the patricians the founding fathers wished the US to be.