Q2 rebuttal:
That's incorrect gibberish, Tim. You need to focus.
The Electoral College is for Presidential elections only, not for Congress, which controls spending and has their own system of representation. Presumably, if the House and Senate are populated with individuals who actually represent their constituency, what you argue as a reason to continue the EC is even more irrelevant.
My point in bringing up the King -- aside from that being one of my favorite movie scenes -- was (a) that's what our founders were rebelling against, but (b) they didn't remove themselves from believing that the peasants couldn't think properly enough for themselves, and © slaves and women didn't count.
Times change. I don't see buggys and powdered wigs up and down the street. Women vote and there's no more slavery. People are educated nationwide and they're not ignorant peasants who need some patriarchic overlords making their decisions for them. We aren't baby birds with our open beaks in the air, we're frikkin humans.
If you want to keep the EC in place, then why don't you run an election where the EC isn't just a popular vote rubber stamp. I'll save that for the third quarter.