In 2001, Akhil Amar laid out a creative way the US could adopt a national popular vote. Now it might happen — and he worries it could go badly wrong.

The 2026 blue wave could end up washing away the Electoral College. In addition to winning Congress, Democrats won full control of state governments in Arizona, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. That means that a two-decades-in-the-making plan to switch our presidential elections to a popular vote system — a plan 18 states have already approved— […]

  • Kayday@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 day ago

    His concerns boil down to:

    • this might favor democrats more than I thought
    • states could change their minds again, and that would be confusing
    • there should be an independent body for determining the national popular vote