Liberals should get busy working on this right away. It will keep them busy for a half century.
People think they want it because they are stupid.
Eventually, they'll come to understand that it would mean the 10 or so largest cities in the US will pick the president.
Good luck getting ratification in two thirds of the states when that truth becomes known.
And that is exactly why the Left is pushing for this. Because they know they will control the White House until the nation is driven into bankruptcy.
It amazes me how stupid many Americans are on this issue. I got into it with my sister-in-law on this very subject over the summer. She felt that it just made sense to choose the president on the popular vote instead of that "complicated" electoral college.
She lives in Alabama so it was easy to point out to her the flaw in his logic. I stated that if we elected presidents on a direct popular vote, that no future president would care about Alabama or any of the other states that don't have a huge population center.
You can forget about Iowa caucuses and NH primaries. They won't matter anymore. Nobody will care about Cedar Rapids or Nashua or anywhere else with a population under a million. Candidates will focus on NYC, Los Angeles, Chicago, Detroit, Boston, Atlanta, etc., and screw the rest of the country and what they might have to say about things.
The founding fathers knew exactly what they were doing when they came up with the Electoral College - they protected the rights of all states by giving them a voice, regardless of geographic size or population. (That is also why each state has exactly two senators each.)
They are not going to let that silly old piece of paper stand in their way. Several states have joined in an illegal compact to award their votes according to popular vote. Since it is illegal we probably shouldn’t worry, what could go wrong, go wrong, go wrong...