The National Popular Vote bill would guarantee the Presidency to the candidate who receives the most popular votes in all 50 states and DC.<p>The national popular vote winner would receive all of the 270+ electoral votes of the enacting states.<p>Under National Popular Vote, every voter, everywhere, would be politically relevant and equal in every presidential election. Every vote would matter  in the state counts and national count.<p>In Maine, where they award electoral votes by congressional district, the closely divided 2nd congressional district received campaign events in 2008 (whereas Maine&#x27;s 1st reliably Democratic district was ignored).  
In 2012, the whole state was ignored. 
77% of Maine voters support a national popular vote for President<p>In Nebraska, which also uses the district method, the 2008 presidential campaigns did not pay the slightest attention to the people of Nebraska&#x27;s reliably Republican 1st and 3rd congressional districts because it was a foregone conclusion that McCain would win the most popular votes in both of those districts. The issues relevant to voters of the 2nd district (the Omaha area) mattered, while the (very different) issues relevant to the remaining (mostly rural) 2&#x2F;3rds of the state were irrelevant. 
In 2012, the whole state was ignored. 
74% of Nebraska voters support a national popular vote for President<p>National Popular Vote would give a voice to the minority party voters in presidential elections in each state.  Now they don&#x27;t matter to their candidate.<p>And now votes, beyond the one needed to get the most votes in the state, for winning in a state, are wasted and don&#x27;t matter to candidates.  Oklahoma (7 electoral votes) alone generated a margin of 455,000 &quot;wasted&quot; votes for Bush in 2004 -- larger than the margin generated by the 9th and 10th largest states, namely New Jersey and North Carolina (each with 15 electoral votes). Utah (5 electoral votes) alone generated a margin of 385,000 &quot;wasted&quot; votes for Bush in 2004. 8 small western states, with less than a third of California’s population, provided Bush with a bigger margin (1,283,076) than California provided Kerry (1,235,659).<p>In 2008, voter turnout in the then 15 battleground states averaged seven points higher than in the 35 non-battleground states.<p>In 2012, voter turnout was 11% higher in the 9 battleground states than in the remainder of the country.<p>Analysts already conclude that only the 2016 party winner of Florida, Ohio, Virginia, Wisconsin, Colorado, Iowa and New Hampshire is not a foregone conclusion. So less than a handful of states will continue to dominate and determine the presidential general election<p>With National Popular Vote, presidential campaigns would poll, organize, visit, and appeal to more than 7 states. One would reasonably expect that voter turnout would rise in 80%+ of the country that is currently conceded months in advance by the minority parties in the states, taken for granted by the dominant party in the states, and ignored by all parties in presidential campaigns.<p>The bill has passed a total of 33 legislative chambers in 22  rural, small, medium, large, red, blue, and purple states states with 250 electoral votes.  
The bill has been enacted by 11 jurisdictions possessing 165 electoral votes—61% of the 270 electoral votes necessary to activate it<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.NationalPopularVote.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.NationalPopularVote.com</a>