American Horse
AKA "Mustang"
The National Popular Vote bill would guarantee the Presidency to the candidate who receives the most popular votes in all 50 states (and DC).
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National Popular Vote is a bipartisan coalition of legislators, scholars, constitutionalists and grassroots activists committed to preserving the Electoral College, while guaranteeing the presidency to the candidate who earns the most votes in all fifty states.
NationalPopularVote.com
That may be what they profess, but the effect of doing that would be the dénouement of the electoral College, preserving it in name only. Before long thereafter, people would be asking "why are we doing this meaningless practice" and it would be done away with completely, and we would become a democracy, and give up our republican principles.
This is just another back-ass-ward POV, meant to destroy yet another of our institutions.
Putting questions of governance to the citizens in the form of plebiscites or referenda is dangerous because doing that takes the responsiblity away from elected officials and puts it in the hands of the citizens, who most often haven't read the question prior to walking into the voting booths. Their vote becomes influenced by the urgency of just taking a stab at what they, at the moment consture the choices to be, and they can be phrased in complicated prose, that mean exactly the opposite of first perceptions.
EDIT; here is a link to another thread regarding a state that has legislated by plebiscites for 40 years,
People Begin Living Without Electricity and Water in California
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