Tommy, today I thought I'd tell you about something called the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact.

Well, you know me, Senator, and I'm happy to learn those stuff.

Please, Tommy. Call me out. If you don't mind, Senator, I prefer to call you Senator.

Fine, Tommy.

So, this November, Joe Biden won the presidency

by a margin of 306 electoral votes to 232. Wow, Senator, that's a big margin. Yes, it is, Tommy. And yet,

if just 40,000 votes combined had switched in Georgia, Wisconsin, Arizona, and Nevada,

Donald Trump could have been reelected to a second term while losing the popular vote by almost 7 million.

Wow, that sure seems screwed up, I'll say.

That's why the candidate elected president should be the winner of the national

popular vote. Jay, you're right, Senator. But to do that, you'd have to pass a constitutional

amendment with two-thirds of the votes in both houses of Congress, and then another three-quarters of

the states to ratify it. Very good, Tommy. You've been doing your homework. But I'm afraid you're

wrong. Huh? You heard me, Tommy. You don't need a constitutional amendment to elect our president

by a national popular vote. Really? Really. You see, Tommy, Article 1, Section 2 of the Constitution

says only that the state legislatures shall make the

rules by which each state appoints its electors.

Hull the fallen senator, I thought that ever since George Washington was elected our first

president, that each state legislature automatically appointed the electors for the winner of the popular vote in its state.

Most Americans think that, Tommy.

But actually, in that first presidential election, citizens in only six of the 13 states were even allowed to vote for president.

In fact, it wasn't until the 1880s that Americans

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