I don’t think people understand exactly the game that democrats are playing here. They’re creating permanent electoral blocks.
Look at the the resolution that passed a couple months back here in Michigan. It would allow us (fool us) to vote as normal but force our electors to vote with surrounding states. There are 14 states where this has passed at least one house. The democrats really have thought this through and are well aware of the permanent majority they can create.
(it’s a pdf file)
http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2007-2008/billintroduced/House/pdf/2008-hIB-6610.pdf
You're right, the idiots don't. But this will work only once.
Once the voters of a state realize that they voted strongly for one candidate, but their votes were delivered to the candidate that a majority in a different state selected, they'll suddenly realize that they disenfranchised themselves.
Then they'll scream that it was all a trick and demand they get their vote back. It won't be their fault that they were so effing stupid, they thought it was a good idea at the time.
In fact, it would probably occur before they even sat the electors. Any pact between the states would be trumped by the Constitution that says states can decide on their own how they want to select their electors. The "coalition" would die abornin'.
BTW, there is no way to know whether this goofy pact would benefit a Republican or Democrat. It's just being embraced by Democrats because they're much stupider, plus they're still bitter that Gore won the popular vote and lost the election.