Analysis: Democrats calling to abolish the electoral college should not be surprising
Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren speaks to a group of about 400 potential voters at a high school in Memphis. By Philip Bump Philip Bump National correspondent focused largely on the numbers behind politics Email Bio Follow March 19 at 3:22 PM During a town hall event in Mississippi that aired Monday night on CNN, one of the biggest applause lines for Sen. Elizabeth Warren came from a comment about the electoral college.
That debate aside, there’s certainly no reason to be surprised that Warren would call for the electoral college system to be thrown out. Trump has celebrated his electoral vote win as a “landslide” and something that was not expected, given Democratic advantages in the electoral college. He said it earlier this month, in fact.
Another reason that Warren’s support for eliminating the electoral college isn’t surprising is that it’s popular. Implementing a national popular vote to determine the president, though, doesn’t necessarily mean amending the Constitution. A number of states have passed laws that would move toward a compact where their electoral votes would go to the popular-vote winner. If enough states join, such that they collectively have more than half of the electoral votes, the laws would kick in — and the winner of the presidential election would simply be the popular-vote winner.
In 2016, Democrats had more than 11 million wasted votes, votes above the margin needed in each state to carry it for Clinton. Republicans wasted about 8 million. But the Democrats wasted about 500,000 fewer votes than they did in 2012, a year when they won both the presidency and a majority in the national popular vote.
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