This post was originally published on Politico.
Democrats who just triumphed in a number of battlegrounds are facing pressure to make their states just a little less powerful in the fight for the presidency.
The party’s sweeping victories present an opportunity for Democrats in states with newly won trifectas to join the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, an agreement between states to make sure whoever wins national popular vote becomes president by awarding their Electoral College votes to that winner, rather than the winner of the most votes in their state.
The compact would go into effect when it’s enacted in states whose combined electoral vote total is at
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