The change, if it was to spread nation-wide, would have assured that the populous states, which include the largest liberal cities, would have dominated the election.
The present Electoral College mechanism limits our exposure to vote-stealing. It does no good for Demoncrats to steal votes in Kalifornia, where liberals have the political power to steal votes, because the winner-takes-all system already awards them all of Kalifornia's votes.
Instead, to steal an election, the liberals are forced to attempt theft of votes in states which are dominated by conservatives, or at least where conservatives have a slight majority.
Those who support eliminating the Electoral College winner-takes-all, should also support eliminating the US Senate, since that body represents states, not people.
True. I think we call those people liberals.
Prior threads seemed to be full of cheerleaders supporting this initiative. I wonder where they are today.