Expect a big Republican push to abolish the Electoral College.

[JackRiddler]

25. Ain't happening but it would be great.

I'd finally have a Republican cause to support.

2000, hello?

A bunch of low-density states that vote Republican and get electoral votes out of any proportion to their low populations.

1 vote in Wyoming presidential election = about 5 votes in Florida.

Of the many ways in which the 55 dead men of 1787 sought to stymie the existing American democracy that their constitution was designed to roll back, this one never worked according to intent. They thought the electors would deliberate and change results if they judged it wise, which has never happened. Electors have always voted with their original candidates, and the exceptions are literally a handful. The only effect of the EC has been to create the mathematical possibility that a losing candidate can still get a majority of EVs by winning the right combination of states. A vestigial and blind effect, but it has nevertheless changed history four times. If the EC had functioned to prevent tyrannies, 2000 would have gone the other way, no?

Let the people vote, I say. It would be much better to change the fact that one single elected super-leader and/or his entourage are so influential atop a super-executive branch that no one had imagined would ever be this big and important, but a straight popular election would be a start.