[DoughtyOne]

The Electoral College is there for a reason. It STAYS!

In the last general election one state, “CALIFORNIA” would have overridden 49 other states to make Hillary Clinton the President of the United States.

Anyone not grasping the implications of that, really needs to sit down and shut their pie-hole.

None of the votes in 49 states would have mattered, just California’s would have.

Tell me that makes sense in any sane person’s mind.

[Alberta's Child]

If Donald Trump had lost California but won the popular vote nationwide, I can assure you that there is no way in hell California ever would have cast its electoral votes for Trump no matter how many "national popular vote compacts" it had signed with other states.

The biggest argument in favor of a national popular vote is that it eliminates the influence of immigrants (legal or illegal) in the electoral vote allocation among the states. California would have 50+ electoral votes even if there were only ten people in the entire state who are U.S. citizens and are registered to vote. A better approach to dealing with that issue is a constitutional amendment to eliminate non-citizens from the apportionment of House districts, combined with the large-scale deportation of illegals from every state.

[IrishBrigade]

‘In the last general election one state, “CALIFORNIA” would have overridden 49 other states to make Hillary Clinton the President of the United States.’

the NPV would take effect only when the states entered into the compact have secured 270 EV’s...the states currently involved total 165; this includes CA, she would have needed another 105, of which she managed only 38...