text: Like stated in "choosing the president" sentence 15 "the electoral college is widely regarded as an anachronism"meaning that the electoral college is really old and we no longer have any need for it. The electoral college is something that was meant for the past. There may have been some sort of issue that they could not properly deal with ,so they created the electoral college in order to deal with it. But now we have more advance ways of doing stuff so we don't need electoral college any more . We can now change our ways for voting so that it'll match our time and period.