text: First off, is what's exactly the Electoral College? It's not a place, it's more like a proccess of choosing and voting for a Presidential canidate. You see the votes that regular U.S citizens do, do not count as the actual votes, though back then the system did work; it doesn't today. Back then around the 18th and mid 19th century, this Electoral College system worked outstounding for it's time, mainly because at first America was a new country, and the Senate that did do the voting and choosing were well educated and have experience. Most citizens in the American States weren't really that educated very well, mostly for new borns since the nation just finished their revolution and they were still in debt at the time, and so not everybody was rich enough to afford anything, in turn they have no knowlege of the way the world now works. Then during the civil war, half the country became another country known as the Conferderate States of America, which opposed the ideals of a more freer nation of other half of the country, known as the United States of America. The Electoral College did help President Abe to be elected, though it was mainly because he was popular since he used the ideal of abolishing and freeing slaves to gain populraity. And alot of people opposed him to become President, but thanks to the College process; he won the Elections, and re-united the two nations into the United States of America.