Not one in a hundred Freepers understand the purpose of the EC.
Unfortunately, political parties corrupted the process. The Framers would freak at limiting the practical voting choices to one of two factional party leaders.
With rare exception, the first loyalty of modern presidents is to their party . . . then themselves . . . then, maybe the USA.
The Framers’ process, if followed, meant talented executives with great public virtue, and unburdened with political debts to pay. Men like GW and Donald Trump!
To be fair, it was the Framers themselves who developped the two-party system: Adams, the Pickneys, Ames, and - to some extent - Washington being the Federalists and the Jefferson, Madison being the Democrat-Republicans.
While they did vote in substantially different ways - the splitting of the ticket between the top vote getters, for example - I don’t think they’d be overly horrified at the existence of the PARTIES.
I personally think it’s the calibre of the MEN which would horrify those early Americans.