The Electoral College needs to go!

[progressive nobody]

I do believe in our Constitution I understand it was written by flawed men but 1 huge mistake Our Founding Fathers ever did was doubt that their fellow citizens couldn't handle the task of voting.

Every other country that modeled their Constitution after our own have stayed away from that hot mess. We need an amendment that respects the popular vote.

[BannonsLiver]

1. We'll all be worm food by the time it ever changes.

Imagine if things like giving blacks and women the right to vote, 18 year olds the right to vote, had not been done long ago. There’s no chance in hell any of that could ever get done today given the climate. You’d never get 2/3 of states to agree on anything.

[Crunchy Frog]

2. It won't happen. Unless it's in the aftermath of a civil war

that our side wins.

[Laelth]

3. And you can't get it.

3/4 of the states would have to agree. Why would any low-population state voluntarily give up its excessive power in the senate or its excessive power to choose the President? Not gonna happen.

-Laelth

[customerserviceguy]

4. Agreed

There are at least fifteen small states that would not go for it, and all it takes is thirteen to nix any new Amendment.

I have severe doubts that the Constitution will ever be amended again, as long as we stay one nation as currently constituted. If you're under the age of 53, there have only been two Amendments ratified in your lifetime, and one of them was first passed through Congress over two hundred years before its ratification.

[Demsrule86]

5. Waste of time....won't happen.