Jesse Wegman, the author of Let the People Pick the President: The Case for Abolishing the Electoral College, explains: “If anything, representative democracy in the 21st century is about political equality. It’s about one person, one vote—everybody’s vote counting equally. You’re not going to convince a majority of Americans that that’s not how you should do it.” Pew Research reported in September 2023, moreover, that “nearly two-thirds of U.S. adults (65%) say the way the president is elected should be changed so that the winner of the popular vote nationwide wins the presidency.”
