Wouldn’t dropping the electoral college require a Constitutional amendment? I see this as another attempt by liberals to circumvent the Constitution.
They aren’t dropping the electoral college, states can decide to allocate them however they want. I don’t see this lasting beyond an election where a Republican wins the popular vote and Massachusetts has to give all its electoral votes to the Republicans.
Why not? It's not as if anything's stopping them. Nearly all power has apparently been ceded to the President and his "czars." Armed bureaucracies like BLM and EPA enforce their unconstitutional autocratic "laws." The IRS is being morphed into an Obama-style gestapo. Who cares? Facebook and the Kardashians is what Americans are really focused on.
It’s not eliminating the electoral college. The electoral college will still be in place. The states involved will simply name electors that are pledged to the candidate who wins the national popular vote.
Unfortunately, this whole scheme is perfectly constitutional. The Constitution allows states to choose their electors in any manner determined by the legislature of that state. Citizens of the states do not have any Constitutional right to even vote in a Presidential election. Theoretically, a state legislature could just vote to select electors that are pledged to a given candidate.
The best way around this is to recognize that there really is no such thing as a national popular vote. What is tallied and reported as such is simply the total of all the official, certified state election results. I would be interested if one of these popular vote laws were challenged in court on the basis that the law is invalid because there is no actual national popular vote. I’m not an expert, but it seems that this is a valid reason for a challenge to such laws.