text: Although, they're are some reasons for retaining the Electoral College. A canidate would need trans-reginal appeal not just the appeal of one region. Or found in "In the Defense of the Electoral College:Five reasons to keep our despised method of choosing the Presdident"  Posner states "The Electoral college restores some of the weight of the politicial balance that large states lose by virtue of the mal-apportionment of the Senate decreed in the Constitution". Last, pressure from run-off elections when a candidate doesn't win majority vote is subsided by the Electoral College.