I’ve been struggling with finding a POD that could eliminate the electoral college in a plausible way.
Could the victorious North force through an amendment to abolish the electoral college in the aftermath of the civil war? I haven’t seen any mention of it, but changing the presidential election to a direct popular vote would seriously hurt the power of the white plantation class. If only a few people in a state can vote, then the state has much less impact on the presidential election. That would give the states incentive to expand the franchise, or be rendered irrelevant at presidential election time.
I do not now enough about the politics of the era to know if this is feasible; is it? If someone thought about it, would it be able to be put through?
If anyone wants to take this and run with it, go ahead—I certainly can’t do anything with it.