The electoral college (as opposed to popular vote) is still the way to go but we need to amend the Constitution to allow states to split their electoral votes by county.
Remember, the electoral college was designed to keep the big cities (which at the time was Boston, New York and Philadelphia) from having an unfair advantage over rural areas in choosing the president. Due to the massive populations of some of our larger states (California, New York, Florida, Illinois, Ohio, etc.), they now have the very unfair advantage our founding fathers were trying to protect us from.
No amendment necessary. States can allocate their electoral votes any way they want. Maine and Nebraska use congressional districts plus an at large vote for who wins the state.
Thank you for the history lesson!
We would not need to get rid of the electoral college, which is now giving an advantage to urban areas, if we went back to only allowing landowners to vote, the way the founding fathers intended.
Want to vote? Show up to your polling place with your property tax bill. That would eliminate all the votes of the people who take and don’t contribute, totally changing the political landscape in America.