The National Popular Vote bill would guarantee the Presidency to the candidate who receives the most popular votes in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Explanation It has been enacted into law in 12 states with 172 electoral votes (CA, CT, DC, HI, IL, MA, MD, NJ, NY, RI, VT, WA). Map showing status in states. The bill will take effect when enacted by states with 98 more electoral votes. It has passed at least one house in 11 additional states with 89 electoral votes (AR, AZ, CO, DE, ME, MI, NC, NM, NV, OK, OR) and has been approved unanimously by committee votes in two additional states with 26 electoral votes (GA, MO). The bill has recently been passed by a 40–16 vote in the Republican-controlled Arizona House, 28–18 in Republican-controlled Oklahoma Senate, 57–4 in Republican-controlled New York Senate, 34-23 in Democratic-controlled Oregon House, and 26-16 in the New Mexico Senate.
But, I think another thing is that it could be argued that this is also an unconstitutional dodge around the process to amend the constitution. The present arrangement was to avoid the dominance of the most popular states, and explicitly so. If the states want to amend the constitution, call a convention of the states and amend it.
Our founding fathers were quite explicit about their intent here that every state have a say in the national government. This was the heart of the Madisonian compromise that made the constitution acceptable to the states in the first place.