Reply #133: Take this to the bank:

[endthewar]

The electoral college as it exists now will decide the election in 2012, 2016, and 2020. You can rant and rave as much as you like, but I promise you that will be the case.

The political will to enact this change was back in 2000, yet 8 years later we still have the electoral college as the same. If you actually played out the results of this kind of change in that brain of yours, you'd realize why it wouldn't work. States subscribing to this will automatically lessen their national importance if they had any at all. No swing state or battleground state would go through with this law if it came close to being a reality. States are trying to maximize their importance during the elections, not minimize it. :crazy: