[Ike Bana]

Since the system for determining how the Electoral votes are awarded is up to each individual state (plenary power), there is a simple way around this fucking nonsense. It's called the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact. Simply, member states agree, by their own state law and by their existing plenary power, that the candidate who has the majority of the full national popular vote will receive all the Electoral College votes from those states. That's it. There are fifteen states plus D.C. (195 EC votes) that have already put this into their state law, over half way to 270. And twelve more (164) where the law is pending. The total EC votes from these twenty-seven states plus D.C. would be 359 Electors. But right now it's at 195 and the moment it goes over 270, it's done. Whichever candidate receives the majority of popular votes will win the Electoral College vote.

Don't need any goddamn Constitutional amendment. The states already have the legal power to do this. And there are already five "small" states that are on board with this initiative...Hawaii, Vermont, Rhode Island, Delaware and New Mexico...all with five Electoral College votes or fewer. So this "it protects the small states" argument is bullshit.

PS - I earlier posted the remote possibility of a candidate winning the office with only 23% of the popular vote. I suspect many of you conjobs just blew it off as ridiculous. Just wanted to let you putz's know that in 1824, John Quincy Adams won the Presidency with 30.9% of the popular vote. The popular vote winner in that election was Andrew Jackson with 41.4%, a margin of over 10 points. Pretty goddamn ridiculous.