The National Popular Vote initiative will go nowhere. Red States and swing states would lose their political clout under it.
Had the system been in place for this election, they would have been forced to award their electoral votes to Hillary Clinton even though the people of their states voted for Trump.
As an interstate compact, it also would need congressional consent. There is nothing with the Electoral College that needs fixing and the only time it needs to be fixed, we’re told - is when the Left has lost an election.
But there’s nothing self-serving or partisan about their wanting to force Red States and Purple States into voting for a Democratic presidential candidate from here to eternity. Yeah, right.
Any state can pass a law now to award their Electoral College vote to the winner of the national popular vote on its own. Why will no state step up and unilaterally do this to be a leader for the cause?
Why are they hiding behind this need to have a compact of 270 votes lined up before making the change? Why won't some liberal state lead by example?
-PJ