Not Our Forefathers' Electoral College, States Hatch Plan

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While an amendment to the Constitution could change or eliminate the electoral college, battleground states and small states would probably oppose any change that would leave them with less influence. Indeed, since the system's inception, numerous efforts to amend it have been defeated.

Instead, reformers have turned to the interstate compact, saying it would be constitutional because agreements between states already exist.

The compact is designed to take effect only if states representing 270 electoral votes approve the compact legislation, giving those states majority control of the electoral college. The result: The "compact" group of states would be able to determine a presidential election......

Meanwhile, several newspapers have come out in favor of the plan, including The New York Times, which calls it an "ingenious solution.".....

"It's like cheating," says (GOP Assemblyman Chuck DeVore), who predicts that the plan would force candidates to campaign primarily in urban areas with large populations to win the popular vote.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/06/16/politics/main1719368.shtml?source=RSS&attr=Politics_1719368

force candidates to campaign primarily in urban areas with large populations of educated brown people, whereas we prefer to target the small town people who don't read the news and only watch FAUX for their information, which saves us a lot of time, reallly, and makes our fear-based attacks on gays, foreigners, and intelligence a lot easier.