No offense intended, but I’m pretty skeptical of the source as well. But all that aside.... the Dems had better watch what they wish for. I love the electoral college for the usual reasons...keeping the less populated states from being disenfranchised, etc. But I will say this. If the electoral college were done away with, we might not have another democrat president for decades. Think about the 55-point headstart the Dems have at the beginning of each election in CA. If we were to do away with the electoral college, we’d get 42% of CA instead of 0%. Brand new strategy. GOP could narrow its resources to 6 or 8 big cities that we now ignore. Dems would have to broaden their resources to 1,000 or so counties. Awfully hard to swing votes in that great big red map of the U.S.
I think it was von Clausewitz who said, never interrupt your adversary when he's making a mistake. The NPV is the DNC's attempt to subvert the POTUS elections, but it looks like a colossal blunder to me -- knowing it's there would juice the Pubbie turnout everywhere (including dyed-in-the-blue states) forcing all those California electoral votes into the lap of the Republican candidate. The Demagogic Party rejected the real reform that was suggested, and came up with that. But imagine how they'd throw themselves on the ground and hold their breath until they turned blue if they manufactured a permanent Pubbie lock on the White House.
you are wrong about california. the wasted votes from CA would be so much more useful for Democrats than the 55 electoral votes. we should be happy to yield the 55 EC votes, only that and nothing else.
In a few states like CA NY and IL Hillary ran up her vote margin so much that she got that multimillion vote margin in the popular vote. The strong Trump states were nowhere as close in running up their votes for Trump.