Same reason it was used when it was made. The 'higher ups' didn't want the uneducated having ALL the power when voting for their president. With people today no one researchs the issues and values of their eventual leader. Granted the people seem to sway the EC but the EC can vote how they please. Until the American public show they are intelligent as a whole and don't go withthe 'biggest fad' then we'll have an Electoral College.

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