All this chatter about abolishing the Electoral College is going to go nowhere. People, especially when they feel they've "lost" some decision unfairly, love to call for Constitutional Amendments. Some public officials have called for hundreds of them. First, they make their speeches and then…
…and then nothing happens. Most of them never do anything but to give the speech, promise to do everything possible to make the amendment happen and then they do nothing. Or maybe they do one or two meaningless gestures and then nothing ever happens. There's no way to measure this but it would not surprise me if less than one out of every half-a-million calls for Constitutional Amendments ever advances to the point of being voted upon.
It certainly can't happen without bipartisan support and what are the chances that Republicans — who in the last few decades have won two presidential elections because we have the Electoral College — will get behind such a movement? Conceivably, they might after one or two elections in which their candidate wins the popular vote and loses the White House…but it could be fifty years before that happens. And when it does, the Democrats — who will have won an election because of the E.C., won't be in a great hurry to abolish it.
I don't even have an opinion as to whether it would be a good idea or not because even if it is, it ain't gonna happen. Let's go on to more pressing topics…like what happens when President Trump starts pardoning Chris Christie and everyone else on his team, including himself?