In true progressive fashion, its organizers have been working since 2006 to accomplish their goal—to borrow a Fabian Socialist expression—by stealth. Under the rubric of a “National Popular Vote,” this plan would allow the fourteen most populous American states, mostly majority-Democrat, to determine the outcome of future presidential elections. The voters of the thirty-six less populous states would then effectively be disenfranchised. If successful, this stealth campaign would give Americans less democracy, all in the name of giving us more. Naturally, most Americans have no concept whatsoever of the existence, import, objectives, financiers, or progress to date of this dangerously antidemocratic initiative. And though its alarming advance would not be in time to influence the result in November 2012 (although we will document other issues for this upcoming election), under a second Obama term its chances for success would be enormously increased. In that case, NPV would forever change the way Americans elect our president, and the American political landscape would be permanently altered in favor of the left.
