With Virginia, the total number of states signed on to the interstate compact is now 18, plus the District of Columbia, for a total of 222 electoral votes.
The compact doesn’t go into effect, though, until there are enough states signed up to reach the required 270 electoral votes to elect a president.
“This [effort] started 20 years ago and it’s been slow and steady … constant forward momentum across these 20 years,” said Alyssa Cass, a strategist for the National Popular Vote Project and a Democratic consultant. “Bills have been introduced in almost every state, most passed in a bipartisan way. This is on the 5-yard line of making this a reality.”
Did you know the republicans have been trying to put together a constitutional convention to push through their agenda? At least they try to do things. Other than a handful of lefties, Dems don’t even float the idea of actual change.
Yea, Republicans have been having those weird governor meetings.
They can still be pushed, though. Lobby them, and if they refuse to change, mount a primary challenge.