It’s so much easier to fake the popular vote when you own the census. You can ignore the conservative states just like Obama ignores congress.
The electoral college was supposed to protect us from idiots. Alibi it has failed a couple of times, we at least don’t have a complete dictatorship, yet.
Not exactly. Our Framers assumed most elections would end up in the House of Representatives. There is no "crisis" if it ends up there.
Our republic suffers from too much democracy, not too little.