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To the extent that this measure stays confined to states that are already highly likely to award their electoral votes to the Democrat, this is good for us.

It is very difficult to image a scenario in which Massachusetts was going to award its electoral votes to the Republican except in the case of a massive Republican landslide like Reagan v Mondale. Same with Illinois, DC, and California if it adopts this measure. So we lose nothing due to this law.

On the other hand, there are lots of plausible scenarios in which the liberal residents of Massachusetts could find that under this law, their electoral votes went to the Republican who lost Massachusetts but won the popular vote by some razor-thin margin.

If the liberals are stupid enough to keep passing this in liberal states while other states don't go along, the liberals will sooner or later help to elect the exact person they didn't want.

On the other hand, there are lots of plausible scenarios in which the liberal residents of Massachusetts could find that under this law, their electoral votes went to the Republican who lost Massachusetts but won the popular vote by some razor-thin margin.

I agree, Nick. This could result in some deliciously ironic scenarios.

Still, I don't see how this could possibly be constitutional, to have voters in other states elect Massachusetts Electors to their offices??? Still, betcha four legal idiots on the Supreme Court would figure out how to vote to uphold it.

But what about states that are mainly republican? If those legislatures pass a similar bill, then their votes would to to the Democrats, should the democrat win the popular vote. We must keep our legislatures from passing this bill!