http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2010/07/mass_may_join_e.html
So apparently there's this national movement to ensure that the president is elected by national popular vote. Rather than going through the amendment process they are going to every individual state to have them pass their own laws that whoever wins the national vote gets that state's electoral votes.
So even if Massachusetts voters voted overwhelmingly for candidate A their states electoral votes would go for candidate B if candidate B got more of the popular vote.
It makes me wonder, what if in the next election there were a few states that did this but most didn't? We could have Sarah Palin ahead in the popular vote by 1 percent and losing the electoral college by the old rules. But my state, good old Massachusetts whose residents overwhelmingly voted against Sarah Palin would put her over the top.
So apparently there's this national movement to ensure that the president is elected by national popular vote. Rather than going through the amendment process they are going to every individual state to have them pass their own laws that whoever wins the national vote gets that state's electoral votes.
So even if Massachusetts voters voted overwhelmingly for candidate A their states electoral votes would go for candidate B if candidate B got more of the popular vote.
It makes me wonder, what if in the next election there were a few states that did this but most didn't? We could have Sarah Palin ahead in the popular vote by 1 percent and losing the electoral college by the old rules. But my state, good old Massachusetts whose residents overwhelmingly voted against Sarah Palin would put her over the top.
