> I'm sure if a future Congress sees this as a procedural issue pressing enough to bring up as an amendment I think you are probably much more optimistic than

> I'm sure if a future Congress sees this as a procedural issue pressing enough to bring up as an amendment I think you are probably much more optimistic than I am about the current level of legislative deadlock in Congress. From where I'm sitting, I see a body so polarized in its politics that it has trouble passing budgets, much less dealing with modernizing federal election procedure. The whole point of the Interstate Compact being a compact is that the advocates for it acknowledge that it couldn't be passed via the amendment mechanism because it would never be tabled in Congress -- but they do think they can convince enough states to go for it, which is the other half of the amendment process (although admittedly the mathematics are different, because they just need a majority of Electoral College votes, not 2/3 of states).