this is what i'm looking for....
the first paragraph to this page on this site...
"hen the country was founded over 200 years ago, there was concern by the Founding Fathers that the voters weren't smart enough to make "proper" decisions when voting for the president. (Well, there was little trust allowing the people vote for their Senator, too, as senate seats were appointed by the individual state's leaders, a practice that continued until 1920.) Despite the fact that very few were given the right to vote in the earliest years -- only male landowners over the age of 21 could vote -- the Founding Fathers decided to write the Electoral College into the Constitution."
http://wv.essortment.com/whathistoryele_rggl.htm