Most every other developed nation on earth fully agrees that the electoral college is weak and unnecessary

It is VERY relevant, they look down upon our system because they’ve moved away from it as they progressed. Britain ranks the electoral college as one of the worst systems, and that’s because it undermines the concept of the popular vote in general, and destroys the concept of “one vote, one person”, as votes in smaller states with little to no bearing on everyone else have the same voting power as massive populations of people who have a lot of stock on who wins. It’s an unfair advantage to smaller states with fewer people, devaluing the vote itself, and even han…  Read moreding the power over to electors who often lack the ability to represent their state in any other way than simply voting red or blue, a binary that encourages a polarized two-party system. Someone can win the election with the majority of electoral votes, but the minority of individual votes by a margin that could easily be considered a landslide. That’s not an election, that’s a presidential appointment. There’s also the fact that the fears of hurting smaller states tend to be unfounded, and that the only time where that was really a relevant worry was during the founding of our nation, just like in every other nation who had or still has it. It also promotes putting all the candidate’s resources into the few states that swing back and forth, creating a further problem of valuing a small portion of people in general, regardless of worries about small states. This leads to a lack of communication and addressing the problems of all states, but rather the wants of the states who are unsure of the candidate, which skews the agenda of a candidate away from what’s going to benefit the most people.