If You Want the Electoral College, Consider You've Already Dumped it

  They scamper about, screaming and shouting how the Elector College should be saved.
  Without ever stopping to consider that it already has been lost.
   For those so concerned that we not go to a popular vote, for those anxious that we do it no other way than what the Constitution says, what about the Electoral College?
   Not the way it is, but the way it was intended to be?
   We scream how we cannot switch to a popular vote. Excuse me, but we already have. It's a little modified, and that allows for an occasional close election to go to the one with slightly fewer votes.
   But, if it is that you do not want to switch to a popular vote, then go back to doing it the way the Constitution outlined it.
   Elect electors. Put their names on the ballot. The way it is now, the elector's names are not even on the ballot. Even when the election is over, we seldom learn the names of the electors who were elected.
    Names, please.
    And, once the electors are elected, let them consider whomever they want for the office -- regardless if that person was even running. It's an appointment, really, and few appointments are filled with people who announce they are running for that office. Did any of the current cabinet members announce their candidacies? Did they spend millions of dollars campaigning?
   If you want your republican form of government, don't give the pretense that what we have is it. It is not. If it is so important that we do it the way the Constitution says, then let's do it that way.