Dems push drastic move that Mike Lee calls ‘a phenomenally bad idea’
Several Senate Democrats are pushing for a constitutional amendment that would abolish the electoral college system and replace it with a presidential election system in which the winner of the popular vote wins the White House. Reps. Dick Durbin, D-Illinois, Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, and Peter Welch, D-Vermont, introduced the amendment, according to a press release. […]