And what I ' m saying is that if the GOP offered a basic popular vote amendment , of course it would be possible to get Democrats on board . 11 Democratic leaning states have already passed laws trying to get their electors to vote for the popular vote winner . You could easily get 50 house democrats and 15 democratic senators who want a popular vote . Most likely though , it would be a mixture of both in this case . The problem is that it ' s unlikely that GOP congress and conservative states would do so , not because they don ' t have the ability to get the votes , but it ' s not in their ideology . But Republicans can get rid of the EC . They would just have to work with democrats . <| sep |> You ' re only half right .