NO, LET'S NOT – AT 11:58 A.M. ET:  Former Attorney General Eric Holder, who politicized the Justice Department, now proposes a change in the Constitution to deal with the Democrats' loss of the presidency.  Get rid of the Electoral College.  From Hot Air:

The electoral college is an affront to a movement that rarely imagines a form of centralized authority that it doesn’t like.

The point of the Electoral College is simple: to restrict the power of the majority. There’s a tendency to forget that majority rule is only half of a free country — the other half is the protection of the rights of the minority, of the dissenters. This is why our federal government has two legislative houses instead of one. The House of Representatives is filled on the majority-rule principle, with greater power given to larger states; the Senate, on the minority-protection principle, with equal power given to each state no matter its size…

Remember: The Constitution intends that most laws be made on a scale much smaller than the federal government, where the individual voter has, proportionally, a much greater say, and where local problems can be dealt with without affecting unconcerned strangers. The federal government is the federation of one level of distinct law-making units — the states — and a direct presidential election would mean that problems unique to sparsely populated parts of the country would be irrelevant to the president.

That’s what the Founding Fathers decided, anyway.

COMMENT:  There is great wisdom in the Electoral College.  It avoids a kind of mob rule.  It emphasizes the very concept of a United States of America.  It forces presidential candidates to give attention even to the smallest states.  If an election were decided only by popular vote, candidates would concentrate in population centers.  The concept of geographic diversity would disappear.

November 13, 2016