[Raymann]

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.

[Political Junkie Too]

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.

The problem is that I haven't seen an exit clause in the compact. There is no provision for dropping out once the compact is fulfilled.

What happens if one state were to drop out, and then that reduces the compact to less than 270 votes? Is the compact now nullified? Do the other states (compacting or not) go to the Supreme Court to force the dropping state to remain?

-PJ

[Verginius Rufus]

I'm sure the state of Massachusetts would figure out a way to give its electoral votes to the Democrat, if that would determine the winner, regardless of the compact. Democrats always play Calvinball.

This may be why the Democrats are so unconcerned about the IRS targeting of political opponents--they figure they will always have the White House, between schemes like this one and granting citizenship to illegal aliens, so they will never be the potential victims of the IRS.