Interesting -- I was beginning to think YOU'RE "just trolling, not really interested in conversation on the topic". Still, let's give it a go in the name of the QOTO ideal.

Regardless of what you think about me, the NPV compact has already passed in 12 states plus DC, controlling 181 of the 270 electoral votes it will need to kick in. It's sitting on two more governors' desks. This is a real change that's coming, not idle philosophy.

Despite your (somewhat uncivil) assumption, NPV advocates HAVE done our research. Here's my understanding of why the EC was established. Correct me where I'm wrong:

1) The Founding Fathers, with a narrower concept of "the people" than we have today, didn't want to leave decisions to the masses. They imagined that the electors would meet to discuss their decision. This is no longer relevant because faithless electors are now fantastically rare.

2) When the Constitution was established, getting all of the states to sign on was challenging. There was a debate between "every state equal" (the senate) and "every person equal" (the house). Specifically, the slave states wanted to protect that institution, so they arranged to be able to count 3/5 of their nonvoting slaves as part of their population. This is also no longer relevant.

Of course I'm aware of the notion of the tyranny of the majority. It just seems to me that the EC merely replaces it with a tyranny of the minority, which is certainly worse.