Electoral College on the chopping block: Democrats now have the power to end it. Will they?

Amid the excitement of the blue wave’s flashier victories in last week’s midterm elections—Blexas, Bliowa, and Blansas, anyone?—Democrats also quietly set themselves up for one of the biggest potential changes in the history of American politics: ending the Electoral College. The Electoral College system was designed to ensure small states aren’t passed over by presidential campaigns, but in the process, it gives those often Republican-leaning states disproportionate control over presidential...