Besides being unconstitutional
Do the Dems in CA realize that CA would then went to Bush in 2004 ... because he did win the popular vote
They are probably working on that too.
Beat me by a minute
How is it unconstitutional? The states can allocate their electoral votes any way they choose. They can award them based on the outcome of a cock-fight if they wish.
But under their plan, CA, NY, IL, and MA would greatly increase their voter fraud to inflate the popular vote. Who knows what their popular vote would have been in 2004 if this plan had been in effect? Under current rules of the the Electoral College, there isn't any benefit to running up the score in blowout states. Under this plan or a direct popular vote, there is.
"Republican" Tom Campbell is one of the major Californians pushing this.
He is part of a "nationwide movement."
Here are a couple websites from these folks:
http://www.every-vote-equal.com/
http://www.nationalpopularvote.com/npv/
There's the fly in the ointment for them.
In 2000, just before the election, the pundits were predicting that Bush would win the popular vote and Gore the electoral. I remember watching some reporter interview Gore, asking him about that possibility. Gore said that if that happened, that George W. Bush should accept the loss because after all, we are a nation of laws.
They're disgusting hypocrites, and if they're successful in this campaign to do away with the electoral college, they will come to regret it one day when the Republican wins the popular vote and the 'rat the electoral college. And they would scream bloody murder too.
Dems aren't intelligent enough to have figured that out.