This discussion leads me to suggest the following: The electoral college should be abolished and the elected President should be whoever wins the majority of the popular vote. This is not what democracy meant to our founding fathers, but a lot of people would agree that this is what we should do now. I'm surprised that I haven't heard this discussed much, inside or outside of this thread.

Slightly off topic, but it has me very upset: The Republicans are gearing up, with lots of lawyers and money, for a precinct-by-precinct campaign in the swing states to go to the polls and take action to ensure that voter registration laws are enforced. They aim to challenge (read "disenfranchise") voters in swing states. Of course, people of color and other marginalized people will be the hardest hit. Some will simply be intimidated into not voting. I wish there was something I could about this as a volunteer and a non-lawyer. I naively thought that we had taken care of all this back in the 60s. Did Medgar Evers and many others die in vain? The cost of liberty is constant vigilance.