Tara Ross does an excellent job of displaying the brilliance of why the Founding Fathers established the Electoral College. Share with your friends to educate them.
Yeah, this has been floating on facebook. Complete and utter bullshit. Apologetics for people who trying to rationalize their apathy to change, employing historical ignorance that borders that borders on outright falsehood.
The framers created the EC because the southern states refused a plan for the people to elect the President, because of slavery. The Electoral College is really no different than the 3/5s rule. It's existence and only application is to protect the influence of slavery allowing states who did not want the people to be the source of said state's power.