Should the Electoral College be Abolished?

It can be argued that the Electoral College must be abolished.  Twice in the last 25 years candidates for President of the United States have lost the popular vote yet have received the majority of Electoral Votes and have won the presidency.  How can this be, you say. 

Well let's blame it on our Founding Fathers because they are the folks who wrote it into our constitution. 

So let's have a simplified look:

1. Each state of the union gets to have 1 elector for each Senator and Congressman.

2. That elector is bound to cast his or her vote according to who won in his state. 

3. Whoever gets 270 votes or greater wins, regardless of how many popular votes were cast in the United States for a given candidate.

This has been a subject of contention throughout our history but especially in the 21st century where George W. Bush (41) and Donald J Trump (45) lost the popular vote but won the electoral votes and thus the election.

Voters in the large urban states (predominantly Democratic) hate it and those in the smaller rural states (predominantly Republican after 1964) love it because they accrue disproportionately more power as a voting bloc.

Okay, you say, this is wrong but how is it to be righted?  Well not so easily.  It would require a constitutional amendment to abolish the Electoral College and that would require 2/3 votes of both the House and the Senate and 3/4 ratification by the States.  The furthest it ever got was in 1969 where it was passed in the House but failed in the Senate. 

 Stand by folks for a proposed solution in my next post;