Should we abolish the electoral college?

[Del Tachi]

No, we should not abolish the electoral college.  That would require a constitutional amendment...the process would be drawn-out and result in the loss of much political capital.

Instead, the states are serious about ending the EC they ought to take advantage of the rights granted to them by the Constitution.  States can select electors however they see fit.  Currently, 48 states award their respective electoral votes to their statewide popular vote winner.  Any state could change their laws to where their electoral votes were allocated to the national popular vote winner.  This is what the NPVIC is trying to do.

So, in answer to the question...for anybody who seriously wants to end the "electoral college" the NPVIC is much more likely to happen than a constitutional amendment. 

However, semantically speaking, adopting the NPVIC would not result in the end of the EC, it would only change the way that states allocated their electoral votes...