>Politicians will never do things the simple way. Just dump the electoral college and elect by popular vote. No. They have to dream up a convoluted scheme to elect by popular vote. Rube Goldberg couldn't do it any better.

They can't just dump the Electoral College. That would require a constitutional amendment, which in turn, requires 2/3 of the congress and approval of 3/4 of the state legislatures.

That's not happening.

Tamar