Proponents of the bill would really like to do away with electoral voting altogether but, realizing how difficult it is to gain the two-thirds vote of both houses of Congress to approve and three-fourths of state legislatures to ratify a Constitutional amendment, have instead devised this clever end-run.

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And about two-thirds or three-fourths of the states are flyover states, where the candidates never spend any time or resources because they know the winner of that state is predetermined.

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