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Electoral College "It sought to reconcile differing state and federal interests, provide a degree of popular participation in the election, give the less populous states some additional leverage in the process by providing “senatorial” electors, preserve the presidency as independent of Congress, and generally insulate the election process from political manipulation."
http://www.history.com/topics/electoral-college

Q:What is the purpose of the electoral college?

A:The purpose of the electoral college is to be a compromise between election of the president by the vote of Congress and the popular vote of the people. The founding fathers established the electoral college in the United States Constitution, believing that it would be both a buffer and provide fair power to all states regardless of size.

https://www.reference.com/government-politics/purpose-electoral-college-c9f12a8548d434ee

The first reason that the founders created the Electoral College is hard to understand today. The founding fathers were afraid of direct election to the Presidency. They feared a tyrant could manipulate public opinion and come to power.
http://www.historycentral.com/elections/Electoralcollgewhy.html

In order to appreciate the reasons for the Electoral College, it is essential to understand its historical context and the problem that the Founding Fathers were trying to solve. They faced the difficult question of how to elect a president in a nation that:

•was composed of thirteen large and small States jealous of their own rights and powers and suspicious of any central national government.
http://uselectionatlas.org/INFORMATION/INFORMATION/electcollege_history.php

Q: Why does the U.S. have an Electoral College?

A: The framers of the Constitution didn’t trust direct democracy.
the Electoral College does make it possible for a candidate to win the popular vote and still not become president. But that is less a product of the Electoral College and more a product of the way states apportion electors. In every state but Maine and Nebraska, electors are awarded on a winner-take-all basis. So if a candidate wins a state by even a narrow margin, he or she wins all of the state’s electoral votes. The winner-take-all system is not federally mandated; states are free to allocate their electoral votes as they wish.
http://www.factcheck.org/2008/02/the-reason-for-the-electoral-college/

As usual Sir, would appear it is you who suffers from ignorance