text: Because the electoral college might mess up dicisions and its a really bad thing to mess up the dicision of who is the president of our country. In the past we have had many bad presidents bacause of mess ups in electoral colleges or uneven amounts of electoral voters. Also bradford plumer staes that in last election 60% of voters prefered a direct election and not an electoral college vote. Also votes would be settled much easier because there would a one in a million chance of getting votes tied and the people would have it there way.