The Electoral College makes no sense to the uneducated, ignorant masses that failed their history classes.

The letter writer makes this comment "Sure, under a popular vote system, a person can be elected with the votes of only a handful of states..."then goes on to say the Electoral College makes no common sense.  Pushing for mob rule so a person can get elected with votes from a few states makes no sense.  We have 50 states in this United States of America and each one has a say in who is going to be our president.  Trump won the popular vote in 30 states compared to Clinton's 20 states.  So mob rule would allow Clinton to be elected with the support of less than half of the states.  Imagine that every four years our president gets elected exclusively by 20 states or less.

Framers of our U. S. Constitution were very wise and knew the pitfalls of mob rule.  They had many examples from history to learn from.  That's why we have a constitutional republic instead of mob rule.