I know this is radical in our day, but I believe the Founders set up a system where each congressional district voted for an elector who went to Washington and chose a president.
In essence, your congressional district chose the guy in their district they thought would best serve the nation as president.
Those electors gathered and chose the president from their number of outstandingly qualified electors or from other outstandingly qualified Americans.
I like that republican system better.
It brought us George Washington.
No, actually, the original method was that the state legislatures selected the electors for their state, which gave the states a lot more power than they have now, which I actually think was a better method. It made for a much more balanced state/federal power structure. Gradually, more and more states went with the direct election of the electors, most states opting for a winner-take-all system for their state.
A system that allots electors by congressional districts also erodes the power of the states, but some states have gone that way. We truly do need to get back to a system in which the states have more power up against the feds.