Should the Electoral College be abolished?

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Should the Electoral College be abolished?
Yes, I think the Electoral College should be abolished. One of the reasons why I propose the abolishment of the Electoral College is because I feel it distorts the democratic process and its underlying flaws negatively affect how elections are conducted in the US. In place of the Electoral College, I am proposing the national popular vote as an alternative way that Americans can elect their president.
The Electoral College is not the best presidential voting process because it gives power to the presidential electors and denies other citizens the right to elect their president. Constitutionally, all Americans are equal before the law, but the Electoral College makes Presidential electors more privileged than other citizens since they are the only ones legible to vote for the president. These presidential electors are party loyalists whose presidential choices can be swayed by self-interest.
Secondly, there is the notion that states that are less populous need the electoral weight they attain through the “senatorial bump” hence granting each state two electors, because their minority status grants them more political protection. But the interests of voters from small states are usually not determined by the relative population sizes of those states. I feel that whether you live in Delaware, Pennsylvania, California or Wyoming, our political preferences are not affected by the size of a state, although the Electoral College system presumes so.
Next, Electoral College defenders claim that the system supports federalism. As enshrined in the Electoral College system, by states playing an autonomous role in the elections of presidents, it is believed that it divides the governing entities between the states and the nation. But the Electoral College system does not really explain how this division is done. Establis...