Let the People Pick the President

“If Trump had won popular vote and lost the Electoral College, this would've passed,” Saul Anuzis told me. “We had seven Republican states on the verge of passing it.”

Instead, many Republicans quickly came to see the compact as nothing more than Democratic sour grapes, an effort to undermine President Trump. This infuriates Koza. “It makes no sense. The people who are actually being helped by this bill are the ones who are opposing it. It's that simple: Republicans in blue states. Theirs is the vote that's being canceled out.”

In a Jewish family, there was a tradition to tie a piece of yarn in the handle of the dutch oven when shabat meal was being baked. One day the daughter of the family asked her mother why this was. She said “I don't know, I suppose it has some deep spiritual meaning. Let's ask your aunt.” They did, and the aunt didn't know either. They asked their mother, and she said “when we lived in Russia, everyone took the pot to the village bakery to be baked in the community oven overnight. We used the yarn to mark the pots.”
Electoral college is a bit like that yarn, except that it leaves nasty flavor to the food.

Read this book. It's OK if you think it's “Democratic sour grapes”, but read it, and verify the information given. Don't just brush it off, verify it. Use any sources you consider adequate and accurate.
Then make an educated decision about the electoral college.
It's good to hold on to traditions, but it's not good to hold on to traditions just to hold on to traditions. If you are OK with the latest model of a car or a television, you should be OK with the latest model of government as well.