I think the electoral college is a good thing. I have done spreadsheet analyses of the last few elections as to whether the vote count matters using congressional district versus 'winner take all'. The total count is about the same but the chance of cheating getting an election by cherry picking one county goes to nil. In other words, the election is more fair. It also gives the individual districts in primarily democrat states a chance to cast a republican electoral vote and vice versa in republican states.