The electoral college is the most effective and fair way to run a presidential election.

Officially, the Electoral College is 538 Presidential electors who vote for the next president.
Each state has different numbers of electoral votes based on the state's population.
Compared to popular voting, the electoral college is much more manageable, and the
candidates do not need to waste their time to try to get votes in states that are already in their
party. Instead, they can put more effort into the swing states. A popular vote would make it hard
for candidates to campaign because of time limits. The quality of their campaign would decrease,
and states like Ohio would be overlooked by candidates who campaign more towards states with
higher populations. The electoral college prevents such a situation by ensuring that each state has
a certain number of electors based on population. To win the election, presidential candidates
need electoral votes from a majority of regions. Therefore, they establish a campaign platform on
national priorities. This puts faith in the American voters that the winner will serve the needs of
the country.
In fact, besides being more tedious, the popular vote often is not much more different
from the electoral college. In 2020, multiplying the percentage of candidate votes received by
each state (each state) by the number of electoral votes (each state) yields the following results:
Biden 267.23 and Trump 252.33. Multiplying the percentage of referendums each candidate
received across the country by the total number of votes in the election (538) yields the following
results: Biden 274.92 and Trump 253.40.
A parliamentary system, a democratic form of government, consists of the political
parties with the parliament's largest representatives, and its leader becomes the prime minister.
This means that citizens in countries that use the parliamentary system do not have the right to
elect their prime minister. They only have the power to elect their legislature. The electoral
college helps to maintains America's historic federalism. Allen Guelzo pointed out in "National
Affairs" that the electoral college's abolition would require reform in other institutions. He
suggested that opening up the federal system for review would eliminate the US Senate's need
because senators represent the entire state rather than a single voter. Guelzo also pointed out that
the state government would lose its say in national affairs without the electoral vote. The
electoral vote provides a unit of influence in the election.
There must be a reason for America to keep using the Electoral College system. Although
the Electoral College might be slow compared to other election systems, it is a tradition and had
steady institutions backing it. Charles Fried, a professor at Harvard Law School, argues the state
plays a role of diffusion and filtering in national politics. According to regional changes and
political parties' positions, election voting groups in each region move back and forth. These
changes have occurred in decades of elections, rather than changing between each election. The
checks and balances of the country's constitution mean that the US government should not act
quickly.
By getting rid of the Electoral College and adopting the Parliamentary System or popular
votes will create a massive mess in the United States. The popular vote would be much too
difficult to implement, especially in cases where recounts are needed. Estimates of the popular
vote often do not differ much from the electoral college either. The Parliamentary System would
turn American politics upside down and cause much confusion among voters.