Al Explains the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact to Tommy

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🗓️ 6 January 2021

⏱️ 8 minutes

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How we can move to a national popular vote without amending the Constitution?

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0:08.6	Tommie, today I thought I'd tell you about something called the National Popular
0:15.8	Vote in Restate Compact.
0:18.0	Well, you're all my Senator, and why is happy to learn no stuff?
0:22.4	Please Tommie, call me out.
0:24.6	If you don't mind Senator, I'd prefer to call you Senator.
0:28.0	Fine Tommie.
0:29.3	So this November, Joe Biden won the presidency by a margin of 306 electoral votes to 232.
0:38.3	Wow, sir, that's a big margin.
0:40.7	Yes, it is Tommie.
0:41.9	And yet, if just 40,000 votes combined had switched in Georgia, Wisconsin, Arizona, and Nevada,
0:48.6	Donald Trump could have been reelected to a second term while losing the popular vote
0:53.9	by almost 7 million.
0:56.8	Wow, that sure seems screwed up, I'll say.
1:00.2	That's why the candidate elected president should be the winner of the National Popular
1:04.6	Vote.
1:05.6	J.A.R.R.Y. Senator, but to do that, you'd have to pass a constitutional amendment with
1:10.1	two thirds of the votes in both House and the Congress, and then another three quarters
1:14.8	of the states to ratify it.
1:17.0	Very good Tommie, you've been doing your homework, but I'm afraid you're wrong.
1:22.0	Huh?
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