When you look over the methods of changing this...it’s just about impossible, but it does make good headlines, and giving the ‘talking-heads’ something to whine about an entire hour.
It would be interesting to untie the Electoral votes from each state, and assign them to just districts by themselves. So you could have eight electoral votes exist in California from GOP-leaning districts. Same would occur in NY state, with five or six of their votes going to the GOP.
But if you ever got around to changing the system, to dump the Electoral College, why stop there? Why not limit the states to just one Senator each, and eliminate most of the duties and responsibilities of the Senators? Why have an entire year set up for a national election? Why not run the whole primary season in 30 days, have a convention the week after that, and then have the national election 90 days after the convention week for both parties? I could see various improvements to the system that go beyond abolishing the Electoral College.
Districts use census population which includes illegals. So illegals would get more weight even if they don't vote. Second, California alllows political activists to harvest votes. We would lose some GOP-leavning districts from that tactic.