Democrats may have found a way around the Electoral College

The 2026 midterms were a drubbing for Republicans at nearly every level of government. But there’s an overlooked upshot of the Democrats’ sweep that could effectively alter the U.S. Constitution and the way the country elects its president.

The National Popular Vote Compact is now easily achievable.

I cannot overstate the seismic shift that the NPVC will bring to presidential elections

The NPVC is an agreement among states to assign their Electoral College votes to whoever wins the most votes nationwide in a presidential election, regardless of which candidate wins the most votes in the state. It goes into effect only if enough states join, through state legislation, to ensure the compact states will anoint the winner. Hence the states in the compact must have collectively 270 or