What’s wrong with “at large” elections? The Dems are proposing we have “at large” (i.e. popular vote) nationwide for the president, so they are obviously not opposed to the principle.
Segmenting voting populations by race is wrong, wrong, wrong and this is a horrible decision.
Imagine if instead of the 50 states electing Senators we had one national vote in which everyone gets to vote for 100 Senators: that’s what at-large elections are. The presidency is a single-member office, so whether he is elected by an electoral college (as I support on federalism grounds) or by a national election it would not be similar to the at-large election of a multi-member counsel.