Revisiting the Constitution: Do Away With the Electoral College

"Indeed, if we were drafting a constitution today, few people would even consider a presidential electoral system like the Electoral College. (Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner, in the mid-19th century, characterized it as 'artificial, cumbrous, radically defective and unrepublican.') ".

If  we were to draft the constitution in this time and age it is very unlikely that we would consider a system like the electoral college, our founding fathers did not trust  the citizens to make the right choice when it came time to choosing a president, they feared that the citizens would not be able to chose the best candidate to the presidency due to the  lack of information or knowledge about the candidates.

I agree with professor Alexander Keyssar, no other country in the world has adopted the presidential electoral system.  Why would they? Countries are happy to vote for their candidate of choice where the popular vote is the key ingredient to a fair democratic government.  I think that we should be able to select and choose who we best see fit to run the country.