05-08-2023, 04:37 AM
Filliam H. Muffman wrote:
Getting rid of Electoral College would require a super majority of Dems in both houses that all won by landslides.
Not necessarily.
The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPVIC) is an agreement among a group of U.S. states and the District of Columbia to award all their electoral votes to whichever presidential ticket wins the overall popular vote in the 50 states and the District of Columbia.
It only works if enough states participate to reach 270 electoral votes. Participating states (all blue) currently have a total of 195 (or 75 short). MN (10 EV) and MI (15) seem like possible additions. Now we're down to 50. Would NC (16), WI (10), PA (19), NV (6) ever do so? Possible, and that would put it over. How about AZ (11)? They used to have some forward-looking voting proposals. Or VA (13), trending blue?
Stranger things have happened. Of course the GOP would fight this tooth and nail, having won only one popular vote for president in the last 31 years...