The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact is gaining steam. It still makes no sense

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There’s a great debate to have about the Electoral College, whether it should still exist or whether we should amend the Constitution and determine our president through a national popular vote.

Advocates of a national popular vote, though, doubt that they could pass such an amendment, and so they have come up with a shortcut that they find very clever. Here’s the explanation in an syndicated column this week by liberal commentator and Democratic operative Robert Reich:

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