What are the pros and cons of the electoral college?
Advantages:
- smaller states remain important to candidates
- candidates don’t need to travel the whole country
- recounts are easier because officials can isolate the issue in one state
Disadvantages:
- lots of voters feel their vote does not matter
- too much power resides in swing states (see below)
- the popular vote winner can lose the election (more on that later)
- risk of fake electors (more follows on that too)
This article is pretty good. Maybe outside seeing things better than the insiders?