Kentucky's own governor just proposed eliminating the Electoral College. Andy Beshear, the Democrat who party insiders love to parade around as their poster boy for moderation, dropped his mask on Sunday and revealed exactly what he's really about, as reported here.
Beshear tried to dress the whole thing up with a cute little branding exercise he titled a "Fix The Darn Government Constitutional Amendment." Oh yes, he actually used the word "darn," as if tossing in some aw-shucks vocabulary would make the most radical restructuring of American elections sound like a neighborly suggestion over sweet tea.
Let's break down what this package actually contains. Beshear proposed banning partisan redistricting, codifying portions of the Voting Rights Act into the Constitution, establishing congressional term limits, overturning Citizens United, and scrapping the Electoral College entirely. He cleverly buried that last bombshell under the sanitized language of "direct elections of the President and Vice President."
The first four items? People can reasonably debate those on their merits. That fifth one, though? That's a full-blown proposal to hand presidential elections permanently to the massive population centers clustered in deep blue states like California and New York.
Here's where it gets truly absurd. Beshear actually argued that killing the Electoral College would HELP Kentucky. His logic? Candidates would need to "earn votes all over the United States" instead of only caring about seven swing states. He genuinely seemed to believe that a popular vote system in a nation where roughly 20% of all citizens reside in New York, California, and Texas would somehow send presidential hopefuls barnstorming through rural Kentucky towns.
The math tells a completely different story. In a straight popular vote scenario, campaigns would pour every last dollar into the biggest media markets, which skew overwhelmingly coastal, urban, and blue. Kentucky and its 4.5 million residents would become even more invisible than they already are during presidential cycles. The governor who claims to champion his state's voice in national politics just endorsed a system designed to silence it.
But the real motive here isn't exactly hidden. Democrats consistently rack up enormous popular vote margins thanks to their stranglehold on California and New York. Remove the Electoral College from the equation, and current population patterns basically guarantee Democratic presidents from here to eternity. Even Donald Trump's popular vote victory in 2024 didn't change the underlying structural advantage.
Beshear understands all of this perfectly well. The "helping Kentucky" rhetoric is just window dressing for what amounts to a pure partisan power play.
The silver lining? Amending the Constitution requires ratification from 38 states. Good luck convincing smaller states to voluntarily surrender their electoral relevance so coastal giants can run the show forever. This proposal is going absolutely nowhere, which means it's nothing more than political theater.
But what delicious theater it is. The guy Democratic strategists have been grooming as their 2028 "moderate" option just revealed his true priorities for everyone to see. So much for that moderate label. Turns out the only question with today's Democratic Party isn't whether they'll push radical changes. It's just a matter of timing.
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