I applaud the sentiment and the call to reform, although the structure of the Electoral College can cut both ways. It’s a very chaotic system.

In 1860, if you put together all of the candidates other than Lincoln into one combined super-candidate who somehow appealed to all of those candidates’ supporters, call this candidate Mega Anti-Lincoln (MAL), MAL wins 60% of the national popular vote. A gargantuan landslide.

MAL, however, only takes electoral votes away from Lincoln in two states: Oregon and California (7 total electoral votes). Lincoln then wins a total of 173 electoral votes and sweeps to victory as a radical anti-slavery candidate with only ~40% of the popular vote.

Similarly, two out of the five episodes where the EC did not elect the candidate who won the most votes, the winner (Adams II in 1824, Harrison II in 1888) came from the anti-slavery side of the political spectrum.