Democrats' Anti-Electoral College Scheme May Be Imploding

Article author: 
Matt Margolis
Article publisher: 
PJ Media
Article date: 
24 May 2025
Article category: 
Our American Future
Medium
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The liberal dream of circumventing the Electoral College might be crumbling faster than anyone expected. Maine, one of the 17 states that joined the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, is now poised to become the first state to exit the agreement—and it's sending shockwaves through the left-wing coalition that thought they'd found a clever workaround to the Constitution.

Just last year, Maine opted to join the compact, which would award all participating states' electoral votes to whoever wins the national popular vote. 

But now the state is having serious second thoughts.

The Maine House passed a bipartisan bill on Tuesday to withdraw from the compact, and it's headed to the state Senate.

Let’s be honest—this reversal is no coincidence. The National Popular Vote compact has always had a partisan flavor, pushed hardest by Democrats who’ve long been frustrated by Electoral College outcomes they don’t like. The 2000 election was clearly a factor, and Trump’s 2016 victory over Hillary Clinton only supercharged the movement. Liberal states such as California and New York signed on, bringing the total to 209 electoral votes—still 61 short of the 270 needed to activate the compact...

But Maine's experience perfectly illustrates why the compact was always a bad idea. The state joined when Democrats figured Trump could never win the popular vote again...

Now that Trump has proven he can win both the Electoral College and the popular vote, blue states are scrambling for the exits...