a popular vote is a democracy. America is a representative republic.
Democracy = Mob Rule.
Popular vote = Mob Rule.
Will this happen? At some time. As mass ignorance spreads, and as demographics make America more and more stupid as the birth rate among the least educated nontaxpayers soar, and as the birth rate among the educated taxpayers stays very low, we will eventually see a democracy in America and have mob rule.
I call it federally subsidized mass breeding. Give them government checks and government cheese and they will do the rest.
Popular vote = Mob Rule
A lynch mob is a democracy.