Yale University law professor Akhil Reed Amar testifies during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in September 2017. | Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call 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— could cross the threshold that would make it a reality. The plan is the National...
Democrats’ plan to scrap the Electoral College is finally within reach. One of its architects is having second thoughts.
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