For all the current talk about doing away with the Electoral College, here's a reminder that almost happened during the Nixon administration
We're now years removed from Donald Trump losing the popular vote by nearly 3 million votes but still cruising into the White House via the Electoral College.
"This is a lost piece of history," Alexander Keyssar, the Matthew W. Stirling, Jr. Professor of History and Social Policy at Harvard, told Newsweek. Still, by modern standards, that is incredibly close for an idea shunned by a number of current-day lawmakers. How did it happen? While there was broad support for change—even President Nixon, at least in theory, signed on with the amendment—the amendment stalled out in the Senate. That was largely due to opposition from southern senators. That included anti-civil-rights South Carolina Republican Strom Thurmond, who helped lead the filibuster against the amendment.
The amendment never got the chance to go to the states, where polling suggested it had enough support in at least 30 of the necessary 38 states to ratify. And, Cumming noted, Bayh had helped lead the fight to deny Judge Clement Haynsworth, a 1969 Nixon nominee for a Supreme Court seat.
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