The Electoral College

There is a new account of the Constitutional Convention called "The Framers' Coup" by Harvard professor by Michael J. Karman. I haven't read it yet but it promises to be the fullest and fairest account of the 1787 convention.
In the meantime the fullest account is "Plain, Honest Men" by Richard Beeman who is at the U of Pennsylvania.
The electoral college must be understood in historical context. According to Beeman, the convention was moving toward having the legislature select the chief executive but there was concern that the insertion of the "general welfare" clause would give the legislature too much power and so there was a feeling of backing off from letting that branch select the president.
Madison came to the rescue with his electors scheme to give the people skin in the game but not direct control over picking the president. Otherwise, we would have had a parliamentary scheme of government, and this could easily have happened.
All I'm saying is that proper understanding of issues like the electoral college must be understood in historical context. If you desire change, it should be done in my opinion from the position of understanding why it was created in the first place.