You are wrong. It *did* happen. the Calilfornia House and Senate passed the national Popular Vote Bill, and Gov. Brown signed it. Those California votes belong to Romney. It was signed into law on Aug 8, 2011.
That sounds ludicrous on its face. Why in the world would they do that? All it’d do is hurt Democratic candidates.
And it is law in several other (liberal) states, as well.
However, within the law, it states that it does not become effective until states totalling a majority of Electoral Votes (i.e., at least 270) enact the same law.
In other words, California will not be casting its 55 EV for Mitt Romney in December.
But the new California law has a caveat.
The law goes into effect only when the bill is enacted by enough states to comprise a total of 270 electoral votes or more.
National Popular Vote legislation has been enacted by 9 states, which combined, represent nearly half of the 270 electoral votes needed for the law to go into effect.
The non-partisan National Popular Vote Bill is being considered in every state and has now been adopted by enough states to total 132 electoral votes:
CA 55 | DC 3 | HI 4 | IL 20 | MA 11 | MD 10 | NJ 14 | VT 3 | WA 12