The popular vote issue came up in 2000 of course with Gore winning what votes had been counted by a very narrow margin. This is where the main motivation is coming from. The left feels the 2000 election was stolen by Bush and they will never let go of it. It was correctly pointed out here on FR that a very large number of votes in numerous states were left uncounted where the remaining number of votes would not have changed the way a state would have gone. If those had been counted Bush could have won the national popular vote but you never hear that from the frothing left.
Ayup. True dat.
This whole "popular vote movement" was always around, but it became official Democrat policy when Bush beat Gore. Keeping people focused on why we have the Electoral College vote system is the only remedy. It's not because we delegate our votes to our "betters." It's to make the Presidency a 50-state election. Nobody would ever bother trying to get votes in Caspar, Wyoming when the big coastal cities are where the votes are. The country would be even more bitterly divided than it is now.
At the time I pointed out to some Gorebot clown complaining about the Florida recount (This was before December 2000) that if he liked the Florida fiasco, he's just LOVE it if the recount was going on in all 50 states. Being a state-by-state affair erects firewalls between the states, so crap like the Florida recount stays in Florida.
And not thinks?
This is coming from those that want a pure Democracy as opposed to the current Constitutional Republic. Something the Founding Fathers worked very hard to prevent. We started the destruction when Senators were moved from the State Legislators prevue into the democratic majority rule.
To give an example I remember when a Turnpike was to be built in Oklahoma, it was a democratic process, the Cities at either end voted in favor of taking the farmers land in between. See majority rule.