If reform is such a good idea, why hasn’t Congress passed legislation to abolish the Electoral College?
Reform would introduce new parties, undermining the long-standing and confining two-party system and would most likely require the well-adjusted parties to amend their presidential campaign strategies, among other things. Not to mention the lack of self-interest necessary to institute a system to promote equal representation via one-man, one-vote. There is no reason to believe that either party would be willing to exchange a nearly exact campaign science when that exchange would mean a necessary modification of that science. Also, reform would mean a possibility that either party would lose control of the presidency to a third party for four or more years. Perhaps this is what J.F.K.
