And it works both ways. Living in the NY Tri-State area, the Democrats could put freshly-released-from-prison Anthony Weiner on the Presidential ticket and he'd win handily against Trump here. I can't say I'd feel remorse if I sat this one out since the vote is not going to be even close in this area.

1960 would have been the time before that where they would have given its votes to the popular vote winner, but it didn't mater since JFK won any way.

Colorado voted to join the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact.  This would only affect the way their electoral votes are allocated if enough other states join the compact to control 270 electoral votes, and if the Compact survives the inevitable legal challenges it would face if states attempted to enact it. 

From a mathematical standpoint, a 270-vote threshhold does not make sense for this law anyway.  In the hypothetical event that most of the remaining 268 electoral votes were in states that leaned red, it would still be possible for a candidate to win the election while losing the popular vote.  In fact, it might even make it more likely.  The people who've crafted this compact didn't think this through, clearly.  For that reason I hope it isn't enacted.  What we need is a constitutional amendment, which (sadly) is probably an impossibility in today's political climate.  

There are candidates a plenty who would support that.  Find them, bend their ear and get on the case!  

 And while were at it....PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GALACTUS LETS DUMP CITIZENS UNITED!   You wanna see REAL change in America!?  Make campaign contributions from corporations to candidates illegal.  And limit personal contributions to $1200.  And outlaw lobbyists altogether.  Many Democratic candidates are not taking contributions from PACs and big corporations (Thanks, Bernie!) and if a candidate really has the ear of the people....they will support that candidate with their dollars.  

 We need politicians beholden to individual VOTERS, not billionaires and corporations who's money counts as "free speech"!   

Almost EVERYTHING wrong with our country today can be solved by tons of well meaning people getting together and exercising the right to vote and voting with the best interests not just THEMSELVES but of OTHERS!  

 It will take time...and some hateful ass old fucks might have to die off while we wait...but hard work is required for big jobs.

As long as the majority of Americans believe that their fellow citizens, regardless of race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, etc should have equal protection and opportunity under the law and consciously votes ACCORDINGLY...we can make it for another 250+ years.

Provided we can get a handle on climate change....