text: The second reason is how it has worked nicely for all of these years why change now. it says in source 1 what is electoral college that " ... the founding fathers had established it in the consitution as a compromisre between elections of the president by vote" this states that it has been around for years and still today in 2014 is still going strong why would u want to risk something that is going so well. another example comes from [source 1:what is the electoral college] "under the 23 amendment of the constitution ,the distrect of columbia is allocated 3 electors like a state for purpusoses of the electoral college." this proves it has ben around since the consitution was mad.