I agree the Electoral College has outlived its usefulness because it has established a system of manipulation and started taking things in wrong direction when the favoring of voters in rural and swing states is concerned. At the time when Electoral College was founded by the founding fathers, it was necessary to take things into consideration according to the specified time and place. Now with the time, it has outlived its usefulness because the emergence of partisanship politics and the concept of the purple states where intentionally few states are kept to cast their votes for the Presidential election are indeed failing to perform justifiably.