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Liberals Want To End Electoral College
It seems to me that the Liberal-Left will do anything to insure that their guy wins. The Star Tribune is running a piece on the "National Popular Vote Interstate Compact," and what a dozy that proposition is. The gist of the compact (or treaty, according to dictionary lookup) is that the states that agree to it will commit all of their electors to the winner of the popular vote nationally, rather than locally. It only requires a plurality to win. What this does is insure that smaller states will be even more disenfranchised in the electoral process than they are today.
Currently, a presidential candidate only has to win by a plurality in the nine largest states to win the election. This will fix it such that smaller states will have absolutely no say in choosing our presidents.
Proponents of the movement claim that this treaty (we'll call it what it is by definition…even wikipedia refers to it as susch) would solve that. This is surly suspect as the focus would continue on the more heavily populated states, such as California, New York, Texas, Florida and so on, while Alaska, Wyoming, Maine and other low population states will continue to be marginalized in the electoral process.
The Electoral College was put in place to assure that a president would be elected who had attained the support of the majority of electors.
Further, since this compact is in essence a treaty between states, it is a clear violation of Article 1, Section 10, paragraph 1 of the U.S. constitution that clearly states:
No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation
If there is such a great desire to change the electoral process to make it more fair and competitive, the proper thing to do is to adopt the Maine method where electors are selected based on the winning candidate of each of the congressional districts with two electors committed based on the statewide outcome. If all states, not just a few, followed this model, we would see significantly different outcomes in elections, and people living in rural districts and states will not be marginalized as they are today.
As noted above, not only is the "National Popular Vote Interstate Compact" unconstitutional, it's a bad idea, especially for rural communities.
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