Just something thats being pushed by people with too much time on their hands. There isnt a snow balls chance in hell that enough of the little states would ratify the proposed amendment to make it law.
This isn't about an 'amendment'. The Constitution provides that the states select their electors in a manner choosen by the states. There is no need to change the Constitution or federal law. The only changes would be at the state level. In effect, if enough states chose to select their electors this way, then it would happen.
You assume they are going to try to do this the legal way, by amendment. They aren't. They are trying a backdoor scam whereby if enough states pass the law, the state's electors will go to the national popular winner, despite how the population of the state votes.
It is something like an expansion of the sweepstakes way electors are assigned now: get 50.00001% of a state's popular vote, get 100% of the state's electors. Under the plan, Bush would have gotten California's electors in 2004. Of course, the dirty not-so-secret is that this would mean that states would no longer have any direct say over who represented them in Congress, since the 17th A. took away state appointment of Senators. The other effect is that a few large population centers would control the presidency, therefore all policy would favor the residents of those select cities.
There is hope that the compacts would not pass Supreme Court muster, but after CFR and Kelo, I'd hate to depend on that.
Seems like this comes up every couple of years or so. So far cooler (and smarter) heads have prevailed, hope this will remain the case.
If this movement does catch hold it will be because most don’t understand the “whys and wherefores” of the Electoral College. I think Electoral College concept was one of the greatest safeguard ideas given to us by our founding fathers. Without this process the larger or most populace states would rule all federal politics.