It is not unconstitutional if they get a Constitutional Amendment to do it, but they need 3/4 of the states to disenfranchise themselves out of deference to NY and California. It will never happen.
It is not unconstitutional if they get a Constitutional Amendment to do itAll they have to do is get all the Convention Of States AKA Constitutional Convention anti-17th amendment pinheads convinced to blindly join them, they might get their wish.
But not before the 1st and 2nd amendments are bastardized to conform with their 21st century way of thinking.
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.