Molly Ball: Abolishing the Electoral College Would Be Quite Unpopular if You Were to Poll It with the American People

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BALL: “I've been surprised that there haven't been more Democrats raising this issue about the Electoral College in the nearly two years since January 6, or even you know, since the 2016 and 2020 elections, both of which, you know, were complicated by the Electoral College. You did have a lot of Republicans using the possibility of some kind of Electoral College reform or elimination, as part of their rationale for supporting the Electoral Count Act, saying if we don't get behind this relatively modest reform to the way presidential elections are conducted at the federal level, that we fear that liberals are going to start going after the -- the Constitution, but it would take in -- in all likelihood, a constitutional amendment. And that is why you haven't heard more emphasis on trying to reform or -- or abolish the Electoral College, which I think would be quite unpopular if you were to pull it with the American people, but which really isn't an issue that's on a lot of people's radar and which because it's such a high bar to amend the Constitution isn't something that any kind of you know, Democratic or liberal political apparatus has -- has really put a lot of effort into tackling.”