Quote Originally Posted by Gman View Post
I think California alone would prevent Trump from getting the popular vote.
Part of the reason for that is that California Republicans (along with Republicans in many other deep blue states) either don't vote because its pointless or they vote tactically like the movement in 2016 to get Republicans to vote for Jill Stein so that the Green Party would hit the popular vote threshold to where they'd qualify for federal money thus making them more of a thorn in the side of the Democrats.

If we go pure popular vote you'll see a lot more Republicans in deep blue states voting for Republicans than they are now.

There are several models showing that going pure popular vote will end up helping Republicans more than Democrats (which I'm not so sure of, but if that's what I have to tell Dems to keep them from supporting the dumping of the Electoral College...).