It's probably an open secret that the Electoral College was really created to give outsized voting power to slave-holding states. And maybe the President should be chosen by majority vote.
But it's not going to change. A change would require amending the Constitution, which takes the approval of the legislatures of 38 states (3/4th). If the Electoral College was eliminated, future elections would be fought in places where most people live.
Which means that you'd have to get a hell of a lot of states to agree to a change that would ensure that, come the general election, nobody would ever give a shit about their issues.
It's not changing in my lifetime. Or yours.
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And thank God for that.
We "fixed the Electoral College" long ago, in the sense that the vet fixes your cat. What we have now needs a new name, because its original form is now demonstrably dead.
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