Electoral College: Yay or Nay?

The 2016 elections were some of the most contentious and controversial elections in political history.

Many of that contention rests on the electoral college, the system responsible for electing the president of the United States. This post from election prediction website FiveThirtyEight shows the major discrepancy in prediction vs outcome: https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-election-forecast/

Does the electoral college really represent the rule of the majority? Some would say that by ignoring the popular vote during 2016, the electoral college does in fact ignore it. But when the founding fathers designed the electoral college, they were thinking at the state level. So in a way the EC does represent the people, not at an individual level, but at a state level. The State’s population is the one who decides for the state itself.

If changes are to take place in the electoral college than they must happen at the state level. As it is, the EC guarantees power to the states to make their own choices in the presidential election