If you go back to population numbers of 1770, there are four states that chiefly matter: Virginia (450k), Penn & Mass (both 240k each), and Maryland (200k). Four states were 60,000 or less in residents (Georgia, Rhode Island, Del and New Hampshire). The fear for more than half of the states was that Virginia, Mass, and Penn would dominate voting, and enact laws that were more beneficial to them. This is why you have both a Senate and a House, and why the Electoral College exists like it is.
How we’ve changed in 200-plus years....massive urbanized areas now threaten the voting pattern. If you threw out the Electoral College....states like Montana, Wyoming, Alaska, and Utah wouldn’t matter. The same logic or wisdom in dismantling the Electoral College would then exist for dismissing the Senate.
I’ll point out one other factor, which the news media hasn’t discussed in twenty years. Go look at county by county voting since the mid-1990s. The Democrats are unable to show any strength in rural counties. The numbers were dwindling at the 2nd Clinton election, and have gone down in every single election since then. The truth is....the strength of the Democratic vote, is absolutely dependent now upon suburban regions.
The Senate ceased its real function after Senators were directly elected. It also made state house elections less important.
When the framers were considering the documents needed to form a more perfect union, the smaller states were greatly fearful of Virginia. A look at a map of America at that time shows that Virginia incorporated the future states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin and a great part of Minnesota. The Electoral College was accepted as the best way to reduce the overpowering influence of a single state, or perhaps (as we have today)a small number of heavily populated states. The Electoral College was and is the product of genius. To eliminate it we return to Plato’s Athens and the failed democracy of that epoch.
Where’s the “it’s about slavery“ crap the liberals always bring up? Of course they are lying. They bring it up so that eventually it will become mainstream and believed. Liberals are nasty but effective.
What reason will 30 states have for staying in a federal union if their vote is irrelevant? Given that these 30 states would be a viable nation the move to succeed and form a nation would be likely. Go ahead and mess with the constitution and see what happens.