Serious question. If Democrats are so favored by the mechanics of the electoral college, why do they want to abolish it?
I can only theorize. First, I misstated the point I was trying to make. Second, it is and has been, via many many examples, a solid American political tactic to oppose something you are in favor of; particularly if you have no constructive alternative and are going to put up a Kabuki, ineffective exercise of opposition. “Fairness”, you know. My real point is, it is not really the EC per se that favors Dems (though some much savvier than I could advance discussion as to why this may be so) it is the changing demographics of the US and the concentration of likely Dem voters in the urban areas of the larger, more EC-vote-heavy states. That is arguably a natural result of industrialization and a move away from agriculture. Finally, Dems will never get over Gore’s loss to GWBush whom they regard as the devil incarnate. The “progressives”, as usual, want to move backwards or sideways while falsely trumpeting their urge to move “forwards”.