I've recently learned about the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact

[conuly]

It's the next best thing to ditching the Electoral College all together. So, you know, if you live in one of the states that hasn't signed up (most of them) you should definitely write to the people who could put that in action.

From now through December I'll be amusing myself with the little fantasy of Electors in swing states (those without laws against it) revolting and casting their votes for Clinton. I don't imagine it will actually happen - and certainly not in any sort of numbers that matter - but it does present a charming image. Imagine it! We could get rid of Trump and probably the Electoral College in one fell swoop and quite within the law!

Maybe we'll get very lucky and Trump will do something so shockingly awful between now and the first Monday after the second Wednesday in December that it actually will happen. I can't imagine what, given that nothing has been awful enough up until now, but I can dream.

(And I don't want anybody puncturing my pretty fantasy with grim reality! I know perfectly well I'll have to wake up to the dreary truth sooner or later, I don't need your help doing it!)

(I also don't need anybody pointing out that if this did happen, one half the electorate would be furious, and they're mostly the ones against gun control. I'm well aware of that fact as well, thank you.)

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[conuly]

Oh, good, because I was worried I'd completely misled you and was going to have to very gently disillusion you and I barely even know you.

Although you know what I found out while looking for advice? Apparently, in the last election, Trump thought Romney was going to win the popular vote and he whined that Obama winning on the electoral was "not democracy", and now it's crickets. So you know what? FUCK HIM. Fuck him, and fuck his hair, and fuck his Metrocard, and fuck his reality show, and fuck his taxes, and fuck the damn horse he rode in on. I don't care if this is the stupidest, most futile thing I ever do, I'm going to harass all the legislators and all the electors from now until doomsday, or at least December. Because fuck him, that's why.

Also, as always, I'm late to the party, somebody else had the same idea.

http://choncegiving.tumblr.com/post/152963872857/notmypresident

[sathari]

Linked away over at my journal, and, hah, no, no need to disillusion me, gently or otherwise! My beady little eyes just got gleaming at anything that could possibly be done even if it's just waving a flag in a hurricane--- it's better than not doing anything. It's better than acting like it's okay that we have twice now seen this THING where we have a successful two-term Democratic President and then the next Democratic candidate up WINS THE POPULAR VOTE but the fucking electoral college nullifies the voices of a majority of Americans--- whether it's because we live in a community where we're NOT the majority and our votes are cancelled out entirely, or because we move to the concentrated areas where we ARE the majority and then we have too few of those, despite their overall population density, to hold the electoral college. No, it's not okay. (Sorry. I know that I am probably preaching to the choir here in at least some of this. Just had to get that off my chest.)

And what's more, if we all keep talking, keep our voices going anywhere that we can, that keeps the pressure on. That keeps this whole mess from looking like it's OKAY. IT'S NOT OKAY.