Now That Democrats Captured Texas, They Can Get Rid of the Electoral College By Passing a Law That Texas Will Vote for the "National Popular Vote Winner" No Matter Who Texans Actually Prefer

The National Popular Vote Compact is an effort to get rid of the electoral college without the hurdle of a constitutional amendment. Leftwing states have signed up for the compact, which says that when enough states join the compact to control a majority of the electoral votes, they are all obligated to cast their electoral college votes for the national popular vote winner, even if the voters in the state cast their votes decisively for the other candidate.

To be honest, I slept on this and didn't consider it a big risk because the leftwing states could not actually control a majority of the 540 electoral votes. So, I thought, this will never come to pass.

Except the left just captured Texas.

So now it's possible.

How about fundamentally changing the way we elect the president of the United States?

No constitutional amendment. No two-thirds vote in Congress. No ratification by three-fourths of the states. And certainly no meaningful national debate about whether Americans actually want to abandon the presidential election system we've used for more than two centuries.

They may be able to accomplish the whole thing with a handful of votes in several newly Democratic state legislatures.

And thanks to Tuesday's election results, they're closer than ever.

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The compact doesn't take effect until participating states collectively control at least 270 electoral votes, the number required to elect a president.

As of today, 18 states and Washington, D.C., have signed on.

Together, they control 222 electoral votes.

They need just 48 more.

Tuesday's Elections May Have Given Democrats Everything They Need

This is where the results of the 2026 midterms become enormously consequential.

Democrats appear to have gained control of both legislative chambers and the governor's office in five important presidential battleground states.

And none of those states currently belongs to the compact.

Look at the electoral votes:

Pennsylvania: 19

Michigan: 15

Arizona: 11

Wisconsin: 10

Nevada: 6

That's 61 electoral votes.

Add those to the existing 222, and the compact would control 283 electoral votes.

Hi everybody. Happy Friday. I apologize for starting off with this bad news.

posted by Disinformation Expert Ace at 12:15 PM

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