Interstate Compact to Overturn Electoral College

(Sacramento, California) California has signed on to a movement to overturn the Electoral College system of electing presidents.

Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation this morning committing California to an interstate compact to award electoral votes to the presidential candidate who wins the most votes nationwide.

The agreement would become effective only if states possessing a majority of the nation's 538 Electoral College votes agree. Eight other states and the District of Columbia have signed on, committing 74 electoral votes. The bill Brown signed today adds California's 55.

Proponents say the agreement would make California more relevant in presidential elections.

Seems the effort is designed to minimize fly-over states' sway in electing presidents. In fact, if this idea becomes practice, the majority of the states will not even have to hold elections for president. The most-populated locations will determine who sits in the Oval Office.

Arguably, the interstate compact reflects the gangrenous bias against fly-over America by the liberal conclaves on the east and west coasts. It irks the liberal political establishment that 10,000 Midwest voters clinging to their guns and bibles can have as much impact as 100,000 big-city voters in a political machine. A popular vote election would eliminate the problem for the liberals.