Can Someone Become President With 24% Of The Popular Vote?

[eniwetok]

25. Our system is virtually reformproof... which is why...

One can imagine a 100 year campaign to abolish the EC via amendment. But as demographics makes the system more antidemocratic and the GOP wants to preserve the EC's GOP bias... chances are it will never happen.

I think the only way to make the system democratic is to force a constitutional crisis... by having a state like CA... whose voters are most disenfranchised by the current system, to threaten secession if democratic reforms are not instituted. Such shock treatment may seem extreme, but that's how the so-called Framers dealt with the defects in the Articles Of Confederation. We've tended to whitewash what they did by renaming the Philadelphia Convention that was ONLY mandated to fix the Articles... into the Constitutional Convention. What they proposed was ILLEGAL under the Articles which were then the supreme law of the land and stipulated how amendments could be done.