Mass. Legislature approves plan to bypass Electoral College

[NHSparky]

Aren't they, potentially, disenfranchising their own voters?

People don't vote for the presidents.  States do.  This is just stupid people pandering to other stupid people.

It would NEVER survive even the most basic Constitutional challenge.

[DumbAss Tanker]

Aren't they, potentially, disenfranchising their own voters?

Yes, and that prospect is mentioned in the article...it describes a situation where MA voters go in a majority for one side, but the other side wins the national vote (A very possible outcome in 2012, with MA staying pure moonbat while an actual non-Communist wins the national vote).  This law would essentially substitute the vote of non-MA voters for actual MA voters and be subject to attack for that reason.

On top of that, as many mentioned above, this is never going to get to the 270-electoral-vote buy-in level necessary to trigger it.

[Ptarmigan]

The Constitution is clear about an electoral college as it is spelled out in it.

[Ptarmigan]

No, but a Constitutional amendment to do away with the EC would take 38 states to ratify it, assuming that they could even get the 2/3 majority in both houses to even send it to the states.

If that is going to even happen.