>>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.
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>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.
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>That's not happening.
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It sure isn't. The best hope seems to be that idea that was floating around about more states deciding to split their electoral votes proportionally, instead of winner take all. That would give as good an approximation of the popular vote as we are likely to get. But I don't have much hope it will happen, either.