Options for Electoral College Reform The recent presidential election has re-raised the question of electoral college reform, since the presumptive winner of the electoral college lost the popular vote, like Benjamin Harrison did in 1888. Many are saying that if the loser of the popular vote serves as president, he will (like Harrison) be very weakened by a lack of mandate. Therefore quite a few people, including Senator Hillary Clinton, are calling for a constitutional amendment …showed first 75 words of 5019 total…

…showed last 75 words of 5019 total…the other two most populous states) also means that such a reform has a real chance of being passed. No state where the party in power always gains by winner-take-all would want such a change. Unless maybe, just possibly, you could persuade the New York democrats and the Texas republicans to make a trade, since the effect of both doing it together might come out pretty much neutral. But California is the place to start.