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What does "it has half the states it needs" mean? They are willing to approve a Constitutional Amendment? What?
The way I understand it, individual states would vote to change their election laws to award their electoral votes to the winner of the national popular vote. Legal as can be and does not touch The Constitution.
Unless they have actually done that, the claim is bullshit. Any state that does do it is just diluting its influence on the national election. It's not in the best interests of any state to do it. Therefore, it will never happen.
Never say never, in this day of media saturation it no longer makes as much sense to make a candidate campaign in person everywhere. The trade-off will be candidates finally able to run on their own ideas rather than party platforms and rigid ideologies. Fresh ideas anyone?