Electoral College, RIP?

As I speculated here in May, yet another midterm casualty of Trump's corruption and lawlessness may turn out to be the Electoral College. In that update on the progress of a leftist effort to work around the Electoral College, I noted:As of now, that total [of electoral votes in state signatories to the "National Popular Vote" compact] is 222, and, as Vox points out, there is a real chance that this year's midterms, fueled by widespread discontent with Donald Trump and his congressional Republican lapdogs, could cause the balance to tip over the decisive 270 electoral votes required to make the compact binding.At RealClear Politics, political scientist James Sieja indicates that the results of the midterms have set the stage for that to happen in any number of ways:Until the wee hours of Wednesday morning, the NPVC was stuck at 222 Electoral College votes.However, with Democrats gaining lawmaking authority – i.e., control of both houses of the state legislature and governorship – in…

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