USNews.com: Inside Washington: Election plan could render the country more purple

USNews.com: Inside Washington: Election plan could render the country more purple: "Election plan could render the country more purple

By Dan Gilgoff

Posted 2/24/06

Imagine an America with no more red or blue states.

That's the upshot of a plan unveiled Thursday by a new coalition of former senators and representatives to Congress that would essentially replace the Electoral College system of electing presidents with one that handed the White House to whichever candidate won the popular vote. Called the National Popular Vote, the coalition plans to lobby state legislatures nationwide to sign a compact requiring states to hand all their electoral votes to the presidential candidate who wins the national popular vote."