electoral college

ok..........so I hate the electoral college. VOTING IN AMERICA SHOULD BE ABOUT THE PEOPLES VOTE!!! omg what a hard concept to grasp?!?!
The electoral college is a bunch of old white guys, who sit around and pick who will be president and vice president, "taking in consideration of the popular vote". These final decision makers are elected by popular vote state-by-state. There are 538 electors. The electoral college has been around since 1787, an outdated process that needs to change. It was originally set forth to equalize the need of opposing views of direct democracy versus Representative democracy.
In 1969, our country came the closest it ever has to abolishing the electoral college because they were upset of the turn out with Nixon versus Humphrey. The popular vote was never the basis for choosing a president, rather to make the people feel they are apart of a government in which they have say in. This only discourages the people from participation and voting turnout. The electoral college disfranchises all groups of people and diminishes all incentives to part take in the most patriotic duty we are able to be apart of every four years. There is also the disadvantage for any third party that is not of the main republican or democratic party, even if an independent has ideas that appease to the majority of Americans. Although it does promote stability with our current two-party system and isolates election problems. The electoral college is overly and excessively complicated as well, and it doesn't need to be. LET THE PEOPLE CHOOSE: one person, one vote (those that should vote, which you can read about in my other blog labeled "who should vote").