One of the reason they want a national popular vote is because they want to nationalize vote fraud. Vote fraud is most prevalent in states the Democrats are likely to carry anyway, so another 2000 votes in a ballot box in Philadelphia do not cancel votes cast in New Hampshire or Alabama. With a national popular vote, they would.
I can’t fathom why Fred Thompson is pimping this. It is precisely what the Founding Fathers wanted to guard against... that being direct democracy. Voter fraud in the cities would reach immense proportions if it were to be enacted.
Very good point. Calif., Penn. (voter intimidation in Philly
in ‘08, while I think of it). Have illegal aliens vote,
or union members going to the polling place and giving the
name and address of someone who recently died (see the
James O’Keefe experiment in N.H.). Here in the Bay State
one could peruse the obituaries of your home town and give
the address and name of someone who just passed on but hadn’t been removed from the rolls yet. If it’s someone fairly obscure, you could get away with it. Again see what happened
in N.H. (in one or two cases though someone did recognize
the name)