National Popular Vote

There is a movement underway to create a National Popular Vote by a system of interstate compacts. Currently 10 states have signed on to this compact, pledging the votes of all their delegates to the presidential candidate who wins the popular vote. This compact would take effect when enough states to total 270 electoral vote (electoral majority) sign on to the compact, thus insuring that the winner of the popular vote would have enough electoral votes to win the election.

Advocates of this reform say, for example, "what this would do is, all those billions raised for campaigns, instead of being funneled into a handful of states, they would have to be spread out across the whole country..." While their concern for disproportional spending is admirable, it is also completely disingenuous. This will not negate the "momentum" effect of states with early votes in the primaries. But it will funnel enormous amounts of money to the 146 counties where over half the U.S. population resides.

If we compare the map of the counties where half the U.S population resides with the map of the results of the last presidential election, it is easily noticeable that these same counties are overwhelmingly Democrat.

This is a transparently political Democratic party grab for power. It is just as transparently political as the Republican's attempts to decrease minority voting under the banner of "preventing voter fraud."