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Does Texas really need to flip blue if the country transitions away from the electoral college? The arguments being made for doing so recently have quite a bit

Does Texas really need to flip blue if the country transitions away from the electoral college? The arguments being made for doing so recently have quite a bit of sense when you think about it.

belltaco 5y ago
Good luck actually doing it. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2020/12/09/how-to-get-rid-of-the-electoral-college/ https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2020/12/09/how-to-get-...
- alasdair_ 5y ago
  Almost all of the states needed to ratify the national popular vote interstate compact have either done so or will do so soon. It’s definitely not a done deal yet but it’s within reach. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Popular_Vote_Interstate_Compact https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Popular_Vote_Inters...
  - kadoban 5y ago
    What states that are left are actually going to sign on? And do you really think the current Supreme Court would let that stand? It seems unlikely to me.
    - alasdair_ 5y ago
      Individual states are allowed to choose how to apportion their own electoral college votes. In the pst those votes were allocated proportionally to the votes but now almost all states assign all EC votes to a single candidate. I’m not sure what the supreme court can do here if the states change the way they want to assign votes.
      - kadoban 5y ago
        https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_compact https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_compact seems like it would be at least close enough to a problem that the current Supreme Court would kill it.