The Reason for the Electoral College

Q: Why does the U.S. have an Electoral College?
A: The framers of the Constitution didn’t trust direct democracy.

FULL QUESTION:
Why does the United States have an Electoral College when it would be so easy to directly elect a president, as we do for all the other political offices?
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