The 250th anniversary of the United States of America makes our country one of the longest-running representative democratic systems of government in world history, so of course the brash Democrats think this is broken and needs to be fixed.
This week, Virginia became the 18th state to join an interstate compact to pledge its votes to the winner of the national popular vote in the presidential election, rather than having those states send electors to support the candidate who won each state’s individual race.
So, for example, if this pact had been complete and in effect in the 2024 presidential election, Virginia, which voted for Democrat Kamala Harris, would have instead sent its thirteen electoral votes to popular vote winner Donald Trump.
Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger delivers the Democratic response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address on Feb. 24, 2026, in Williamsburg, Virginia. Spanberger is in her first year as governor and is the first woman to hold that position in the Commonwealth of Virginia. (Mike Kropf/Getty Images)
So why do Democrats want to break up a successful system that has spanned a quarter of a millennium? Despite Trump’s surprise victory in 2024, the last two men to become president by winning the Electoral College while losing the popular vote were Republicans: Trump in 2016 and, before him, George W. Bush.
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In an act of hubris worthy of a Greek tragedy, Democrats seem convinced they will never be on the losing side.
The good news for Virginia voters who don’t want to sacrifice their own choice for president to the whims of the entire nation is that this pact won’t go into effect until there are enough states to reach the 270 electoral votes needed to win.
If it comes to that — that is, if enough states join to make the compact’s members a decisive majority in the Electoral College — our presidential elections may never look the same again.
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You could argue, and Democrats often do, that we already have a situation in which only a handful of swing states decide our recent presidential elections. But more importantly, which states are swing states is not set in stone, as would be the case with a compact.
For example, Florida and Virginia were swing states quite recently. Now the former is reliably red, and the latter is effectively blue, while states like Arizona and Georgia have become jump balls.
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The advantage of the swing state system is that it forces national campaigns to focus on the diverse regional interests of places like Pennsylvania, Michigan and New Mexico, rather than simply trying to appeal to the entire nation at once.
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The pact would also raise very serious concerns about the integrity of our presidential elections, because even if a state wanted to enforce voter ID, or purge its voter rolls, or reduce voting by mail, that would not matter because the final outcome could be tied by states without such measures.
This is one of the countless reasons why the Save America Act, which the Republican leadership in the Senate refuses to push through by overturning the filibuster, is so absolutely essential. If the Democrats succeed in killing the Electoral College, we need standard federal voting laws.
Like the effort in Virginia, on next Tuesday’s vote, to redistrict the Commonwealth’s congressional districts from a 6-5 Democratic advantage to a 10-1 advantage in a state close to 50/50, this compact appears designed to steal votes from conservatives.
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This compact isn’t just a solution in search of a problem, which would be bad enough. It is essentially a naked power grab designed to ensure Democrats win the presidential elections, not to make them fairer.
Another wrinkle in the story of this anti-democratic pact is that blue states are looking to absorb a population decline in the 2030 census, while Americans are fleeing high-tax semi-socialist states like California and New York and moving to places like West Virginia, Tennessee, Texas and Florida.
According to the Brennan Center for Justice, only Texas and Florida, both ruby ​​reds, will receive electoral votes in the next decade.
Naturally, the Democrats, once again more interested in winning than fairness, would like to see their cunning little deal erase the red state advantages.
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It’s always the same with the Democrats. They never believe that they will actually lose elections fairly. When they lose, it is always the fault of a supposedly broken system, not their own bad ideas.
Hopefully, Virginia will be the last state to join this ridiculous and anti-American pact. For two and a half centuries, the Electoral College has served our nation well, and there is no reason to give it up now.
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