Crooked Hillary!

This is a ridiculous argument. The electoral college doesn't increase rural representation at all. The required number of senators and limited number of house members does! The real problem with the electoral college, and some state primaries, is the sheer number of "winner takes all" states. This marginalizes the minority party of either color in many states. Instead of having a president competing for votes across the country, you have candidates pandering to a handful of "swing states" while the rest of the country is left stagnant and ignored.

There is nothing more frustrating in a presidential election than knowing that your vote doesn't matter because you live in the wrong state.

We could argue the merits of rural vs urban representation in Congress all day, but there is no reason to skew votes for a president that is intended to represent the ENTIRE country. The founding father's reasons for creating the Electoral College are archaic and defunct in an age where communication from Alaska to New Hampshire happens instantaneously.

I do agree with a lot of what you're saying and frankly I do think the electoral college does need some restructing, I wouldn't be opposed to an electoral college where the individual states do more electoral college vote splits so it doesn't lean towards the more "winner takes all" type of system that we have now.

The fact of the matter is Trump had to work with the system the way it is now and he found a demographic of disenfranchised people to support him.