How Evan McMullin Could Win Utah and the Presidency
A friend of mine is working on a plan to fix this electoral college madness once and for all.  It's called National Popular Vote, and it's a brilliant scheme to have the president elected by (as the name implies) the national popular vote without a Constitutional amendment:<p><a href="http://www.nationalpopularvote.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.nationalpopularvote.com</a><p>The idea is to get state legislatures to pass laws that their states will cast their electoral collect votes according to the outcome of the national popular vote, but contingent on enough states passing similar legislation that the states who have passed such laws constitute a majority in the electoral college.  In other words, the legislation has no effect until enough states pass it that it has the same effect as Constitutional amendment would.  It's a devilishly clever hack, and the law has already passed (stealthily) in over a dozen states, including California and New York.  It enjoys (as you might expect) overwhelming popular support nearly everywhere, so I think it has a good chance of actually succeeding.  If you care about this sort of thing you might want to consider spreading the word, or even making a contribution.