I've been arguing in this thread how the rules have been bent since the signing of the Constitution, in which the south sought a method for lower population states to manipulate the selection of the PotUS. (Later codified far more strictly in the 12th Amendment.)
It's amazing how people think that some other means of deciding the president other than the popular-vote is acceptable. The Electoral College is sham and we should have known that every time -
five times in American history - that the EC-vote defied the Popular-vote (which should have prevailed).
And this forum shows vividly enough how some Americans cannot get that fundamental-truth into their noggin.
The Electoral College is dysfunctional and a travesty of presidential Electoral Justice*. It's time to dump-it rather than genuflect at the illogic that "it's in the original constitution". What is wrong is wrong and must done away with - particularly in an election to the highest office in the land**.
Period ...
*If it is so acceptable, why not employ it as well to elect America's state Executives? (That is, governors.)
**And never has that truth been more evident since the election of Donald Dork.