An effort led by Democrats to scrap or bypass the Electoral College and shift presidential elections to contests decided by the national popular vote has almost no chance of succeeding, guaranteeing Democrats will again have to defeat Trump in the Electoral College they lost in 2016 while winning more votes nationally.
The Electoral College places the power to elect presidents in the hands of individual states and is enshrined in the Constitution.
The hurdles to amend the Constitution and move to the national popular vote are steep. So the bipartisan National Popular Vote interstate compact seeks to subvert this constitutional shield by convincing states to throw their electoral votes to the winner of the national popular vote, regardless of which candidate wins their state. Compact supporters believe this doesn't require amending the Constitution, but that notion would be challenged in the courts.
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They're already doing their plotting in some states by automatically giving the race to the winner of the popular vote in the state, essentially giving those major metropolitan areas rule over every other square inch of those states.
So are those states like Delaware & Colorado and others who changed to giving all their electoral votes to the popular vote winner acting unconstitutionally? Something needs to be done about it before the 2020 vote if it is.
How does it differ from Gerrymandering ?
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