Here’s an interesting idea of how to get rid of the Electoral College in place of a national popular vote without amending the Constitution. The basic idea is to have an interstate compact where participating states promise to give all of their electoral votes to the winner of the popular vote. As long as the states involved have more than 270 electoral votes, it would be enough to make the Electoral College obsolete. (So, e.g., if the largest states in the Union participated, you’d only need 11 to make the compact.) (via pw)