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No, actually they'd love it. Why? Because a few densely populated cities on both coasts will rule the nation forever more. Those cities are all that's left of the Left/Dem power base.

You are right, but like them, you are looking only at the surface. What will happen is that the cities will elect the President and it will encourage both parties to put forward their most liberal candidate.

For awhile, city liberalism will reign supreme. But the people in flyover country will seek to balance it, and stop the liberal onslaught, in the only way they can....by driving the liberals out of power where they DO have control.

I suspect you would see that the divisions we see now would be nothing. Right now, we see some conservative Democrats elected in rural areas, and some liberal Republicans elected in high density areas. I think that would cease. I think the Democratic Party would effectively cease to exist in the red states and the Republican Party would cease to exist in blue areas.

I think the Senate would go Republican in a huge way. Even if they kill the electoral college, people in the red would figure out that they could control things somewhat by controlling the Senate and presenting a united face (sort of like the South did pre-Civil War).

Then you would see the rise of sectionalism again in our legislative bodies and the red section feeling that they were screwed every time in the Presidential arena and the blues feeling they were being screwed out of their utopia in the Senate. A house divided against itself and all that....

I think, even Democrats, in the long run would regret eliminating the electoral college since it would finally completely push them out of the rest of the country and into enclaves in the cities. Its a sure way that they can enshrine their party as nothing but a party of the city.

They are of course too power hungry and dumb to realize this right now.