[LauraleeBraswell]

It would never pass

You'd have to get, what is it, 2/3rds of the states to ratify it ?

[Still Thinking]

3/4, I believe. What's with calling Feinstein "moderate". I always thought she was pretty far left.

[Procyon]

It's 3/4 not 2/3 of States needed to ratify.

[Procyon]

It's 3/4 not 2/3 of States needed to ratify.

[pgkdan]

That's right. It will take a Constitutional Amendment and the Red states won't support it. It may get some supprot in the population centers like NY and New England and CA and the rest of the west coast but the rest of the country will never support it.

[gridlock]

People (particularly Senators) who advocate abolishing the Electoral College fail the Seriousness Test. They are obviously flapping their gums to no effect because there is no way, short of a new Constitutional Convention, the Electoral College will ever be eliminated, because the requisite number of states will never approve a Constitutional amendment to do so.

The Electoral College was a compromise intended to guarantee the small states would have a voice in national politics and would not be overly dominated by the large states. What was true then is true today and will remain true in the future. The small population states are over-represented in the Electoral College, and they like it that way. It would be directly against their interests to eliminate the Electoral College, so it would be political suicide for any small state legislature to support such an amendment.

Not gonna happen. Neverhatchi, tamilnachi. So why does Feinstein waste our time talking about it?

[jrfaug06]

It would not even pass in blue states.

John