Are you talking about the Electoral College? Cause your rant is pretty scatterbrained and nonspecific. If so, it is supposed to allow for proportionate representation of the interests of each State based on their population. As it has been referred to, the US was intended as a Sovreign Nation of many Sovreign States. The point, therefore, is for the election to represent the wills and desires and interests of the States. Electoral College representative numbers for each state is the same as the number of Congress members that State holds. Contrary to popular parlance, we are NOT a democracy. We are a Democratic Republic. Direct democracy voting is not part of our system and rarely is ever used and yes, there is a reason for that. But the odds of a President winning the Absolute Majority of Electoral votes and NOT the absolute majority of the populace vote is very low. It has happened only a small number of times. It is more about a constant interplay and ballance between the power of the people, the representatives of the people, and then the federal and state powers. And direct democracy brings with it a host of other problems, fyi, if you take it to its extreme that many want to.
As for the bipartisan nature, that is only really a 20th and 21st century issue. Shoot, four presidents were a Whigs. It's just the way it usually falls due to a large number of variables. A nation of this scale, the costs of campaigning, it naturally lends to a bipartisan status. This could be corrected with much tighter campaign fund regulations. But bipartisanship is not part of the election system, it is just something that happened.
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