A number of people have pointed out that with Tuesday's election results, there are almost enough Democratic state trifectas to enact National Popular Vote. (A couple of my past posts on the subject of NPV: 2012, 2019.)
Minnesota, a previous hold-out, passed NPV in 2023 during our last trifecta.
States in the NPV Interstate Compact currently make up 222 of the needed 270 electoral votes, a shortage of 48 votes.
Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, all with new trifectas, have not yet enacted it. Among them they have 44 electoral votes, which would bring the total to 266 if they each passed NPV.
There are three other states that may get trifectas:
- Arizona (11 votes) and Nevada (6 votes), each with its governor's race decided, and both houses still in contention.
- Alaska (3 votes), with both houses controlled by Democrats, and its governor's race still in contention.
This BlueSky link has a short NPV video that explains the math.
Even if Elie Mystal is right, and NPV would not stand up to a legal challenge with the currently composed Supreme Court, getting it into place while working for a Constitutional amendment fully repealing the Electoral College is still a strategy.
So if you needed something else to follow in the midst of all this election news, there you go. How we elect presidents in this country is deeply undemocratic and it needs to be fixed. This is the simplest way, though at this point, maybe we should be going for a Constitutional amendment too!
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