One can empathize, knowing that without our Electoral College system, Al Gore and Joe Lieberman would have spent last weekend celebrating. But maybe this is a good time to reflect on how we got the system that enables a bunch of politicians to frustrate the will of the majority. Our Founding Fathers designed the Electoral College, giving disproportionate weight to small states for the reason that they designed the US Senate with two votes for every state, large and small. It was to put a rein on the passions of the multitude, to keep majorities under control. The Electoral College was supposed to be a group of wise men who did not necessarily have to heed the wishes of the majority.
Some strange things happen now as they did then.
Something like that happened in 1824, when the Electoral College found itself in a four-way deadlock and the House of Representatives settled on John Quincy Adams. In 1876, the electors delivered two sets of votes, one for Samuel Tilden, the other for Rutherford B. Hayes, and it took a congressional commission finally to give the presidency to Hayes. In most states, electors don't have to follow orders and can vote as they please. Mostly electors are party loyalists, but they can break ranks. That might be better than starting a campaign for repeal of the Electoral College provision of the Constitution, which would probably go the way of most proposed constitutional amendments and, in any event, would not help the current situation.