Should We Keep The Electoral College

I do not think we should have this idiotic voting system known as the electoral college, the electoral college has been failing us, and their is no good reason for why we should keep it. My three reasons for opposing it is It is against democracy and it should be the peoples vote, 2, the point of it is failing, and finally, what is so bad about picking the president the people wanted My first reason, it is against democracy and it should be up to the people to decide. A country with democracy should have a voting system that is simple, who ever the people like most. For example, a YouTube, CGP gray, explained it well. He said later on in his video that there can be a scenario were a president could win with a candidate can get 21% of the popular vote is able to win the white house because of the electoral college, tho it is very unlikely, it is still bad when that can happen. He later there has been 3 times in American history were the candidate won the election but lost the popular vote, sure that is 5%, and 5% may not seem like a lot, but it is the president of the United States. If we just had the popular vote, then the citizens can pick their president, a way a democracy should work. My second reason is the point of the electoral college has been failing. The electoral college was supposed to give power to each state so that candidates will care about every state, well that is not the case. The electoral college only makes candidates care about swing states, for example, do you think Republican candidates care about what the people in Vermont think, and do Democratic candidates care about what the people in Arkansas think, no, because the electoral college makes them only care about swing states like Florida, Virginia, and Ohio. And this is proven later in his video when he talks about the number of visits candidates made to each state, and the number of money spent on campaigning in each state, the top 4 are Ohio, Florida, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. My final reason is, what is wrong with he popular vote? Their is no reason for being against it, doesn't for the candidates directly make more sense. Some people say it would give the people to much power, but this nation is of the people, for the people, by the people. And some people say that if we used the popular vote, then candidate will only campaign in big cities like New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles, first of all, arguing with that reasoning makes you a hypocrite because the electoral college does the same thing, except with swing state, and second of all, it won't make candidates only focus on bug cities. As CGP Gray also said in his video, if you combine the top 10 most populated cities in America, that is only 7%, and if you combine the 100 most populated, that is only 20%, a popular voting system will make candidate have to focus on every state and not just swing states So in conclusion, I believe we should Abolish the electoral college because one, it is against a peoples democracy, two, the point of it is failing, and three, the popular voting system will just simply be better. And that is why I believe we should Abolish the electoral college. The link to CGP Grays video-