When the new Democratic-majority Congress is convened in January, they will have a lot on their plate, what with all of the domestic and international messes to be cleaned up from the past two years.

But I would like to add one more item to their agenda, if it isn’t already there: I would ask them to give serious consideration to abolishing the Electoral College. It would require an amendment to Article II, Section 1 of the U.S. Constitution, but it is long overdue . . . more than 200 years overdue.

Has anyone ever really read that entire provision of the Constitution? I tried, but got so hopelessly lost in simply trying to figure out who the electors actually are, and how they become eligible to be electors, that I gave up, poured myself a large glass of Merlot, and solved a couple of crossword puzzles instead. It was easier to figure out an anagram for “integrative” than to discern what the Founding Fathers thought would be the best way to elect a president.

(The anagram was “vinaigrette,” by the way. And you really don’t want to know what the two clues were.)

Anyway, I have said for years that the electoral voting method is outdated, unnecessary, and doesn’t always work the way it was intended, which is that the electors are supposed to vote in accordance with the result of the popular voting in their respective states. So who needs them in the first place?

Throughout our history, five presidents have won the electoral vote after losing the popular vote: John Quincy Adams, Rutherford B. Hayes, Benjamin Harrison, and more recently, George W. Bush in 2000, and . . . wait for it . . . Donald Trump in 2016.

That’s right, Donnie . . . You actually lost that one too!

But look . . . . I’m not implying that there has ever been any wrongdoing in connection with the electoral vote. But there easily could be . . . much more easily than, say, tampering with the popular vote. And wouldn’t it be comforting to know that, in the event of a very close race, every individual vote really does count, and can’t be negated by some nameless, faceless, shameless individual initially chosen for the job by their political party?

So, I think I’ll begin working on a letter to my Congressional representatives, requesting that this matter be given consideration — even priority — before the next presidential election in 2028.

Who’s with me on this?

Just sayin’ . . .

Brendochka
11/5/26