Mob rule is alive and well in Washington and California.  Our founding fathers shot down direct elections for president twice.  You conveniently failed to mention why we have the 17th amendment and wrongly apply it as a cure to our presidential elections.  

"Several state legislatures deadlocked over the election of senators, which led to Senate vacancies lasting months and even years. In other cases, political machines gained control over state legislatures, and the Senators elected with their support were dismissed as puppets."

I find great amusement that both parties had to follow a well known and established set of rules and yet the party of sour grapes and sore losers is crying that the rules aren't fair or an anachronism and demand that the rules be changed .

I respectfully invite you to check your sore loser attitude and come to terms with the latest election results in the 21st century.