Not sure who you’re referring to as a “shitposting troll”, but that ain’t me. No trolls here.
Anyway, NPV isn’t some liberal conspiracy to hijack the Presidential election. It cuts both ways. Had California and her other “blue sisters” been under NPV in 2004, all of their votes would have gone to Bush/Cheney. So if any Democratic partisans are hoping this will be a way to lock up the White House, their plans will backfire soon enough. The canard of a “permanent party” owning the White House has been exploded over and over again.
As far as Congressional approval: This is murky, I’ll admit. Some say NPV does need it, others say it doesn’t. Depends on what Constitutional scholar you talk to. It will DEFINITELY be challenged in court, all the way up to the Supreme Court, certainly. Regardless, there is a precedent. States are free to allocate the Electoral votes as they see fit. It’s up to their state legislators. As you know, Nebraska and Maine allocate their votes by Congressional district. But this does boil down to a States’ Rights issue. And that’s a tough thing to oppose if you’re a conservative.
And you’re also working on the premise that Blue California and Red Wyoming are 100% Blue and 100% Red, respectively. They’re not. Nor are urban/rural areas 100% one way or the other. There is a huge diversity. Get enough of a minority vote in your “enemy territory”, you could very well swing the election your way. Because every vote counts now.
Also, NPV only applies to the states that sign up for it. If Wyoming or whoever wants to keep their winner-take-all by state popular vote, they’re free to do so. Again, this is a states’ rights issues.
I’m not claiming for a second this will be an easy thing to pass. This whole notion was cooked up in 2006…and 10 years later, we’re up to 11 states. This will be a hard, hard slog. But man, I’m not going to just throw my hands up in the air and say “It’s impossible!” I’m not going to be a Comment Board Cynic and just give up. I’m actually going to pick my butt off my seat, tear myself away from the keyboard, and work on making this a reality. Maybe I’ll never see this in my lifetime. But I still gotta try. Because I want to make this country more democratic, with a lowercase “d”. We can’t keep having every flippin’ election decided by Florida and Ohio. There are 48 other states who count, too.
