[Alberta's Child]

The one thing that scares me is hearing about states that are talking about uniting with other states to pledge their EV's to the national popular vote winner rather than to the candidate that wins their state. I think this would be a constitutional way of circumventing the original intent of the electoral process.

I suspect this scenario would never take place. A state government would be idiotic to ever follow through on this sort of "pledge," because it means no presidential candidate ever has a reason to campaign in that state again.

As someone else pointed out on another thread, no state would ever be obligated to follow through on this stupid pledge anyway. If a candidate won the popular vote overall but lost the vote in a certain state, there is nothing that would prevent that state from passing a law after Election Day and before the Electoral College vote to overturn its "pledge."

[Genoa]

states that are talking about uniting with other states to pledge their EV's to the national popular vote

The only states that would be this moonbat stupid are blue states, so it could only work to their disadvantage.

[Fhios]

I read several years ago that states cannot enter into agreements over things like this.