[SoFloFreeper]

national popular vote.

the idea is that a state becomes OBLIGATED to give all of its electoral votes to the winner of the national popular vote—NOT to the candidate who wins the state.

For instance, in 2004 George W Bush won the national popular vote over John F Kerry who served in Vietnam. Under this scheme, the state of California, a state that voted OVERWHELMINGLY for the Haughty John Kerry who served in Vietnam, would have to give all 55 electoral votes to George W Bush.

Likewise, if Florida voted for Donald J Trump but Hitlery won the npv, then Florida would have to give its electoral votes to Hitlery.

Not a good plan at all.

[Verginius Rufus]

The media likes to talk about "winning the popular vote" (except when a Republican does so), but Truman in 1948, Kennedy in 1960, Clinton in 1992 and 1996, Gore in 2000, and Hillary in 2016 all had less than 50% of the popular vote (even if we pretend there was no voter fraud). They may have had pluralities but the majority of the voters did not vote for them.

Very few Democrats have won an actual majority of the popular vote since Andrew Jackson: Tilden in 1876, FDR four times, LBJ in 1964, and Obama both times.