The left's latest attempt to erase the Electoral College is being marketed as inevitable, but the math tells a very different story. Mother Jones dropped a two-minute explainer this week pushing the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, and the screen itself exposes the con: 222 electoral votes locked, 270 needed, and the compact's own organizer admits the entire scheme is still 23 votes short.
This is not momentum. This is a stalled political machine dressed up as inevitability. The stakes are enormous. Kill the Electoral College and four counties in California and New York effectively pick the president for more than 300 million Americans. Flyover country becomes flyover afterthought.
Shapiro's Admission
Governor Josh Shapiro of PA (Democratic) just said a national popular vote "makes sense" and promised to "work with lawmakers" on the mechanism. That is not a hypothetical; it is an admission from a sitting governor. His exact Pod Save America caption belongs next to David Kallman's plain warning: you cannot eliminate the Electoral College without a direct amendment to the Constitution.
Shapiro is signaling that he is ready to undermine the constitutional framework that gives Pennsylvania and every other state a meaningful voice in presidential elections. He wants to hand that power to Los Angeles County and New York City.
The Organizer's Own Math
Look at the booster's own feed. National Popular Vote's November 4 post shows Michigan and Wisconsin hold 25 electoral votes, and approval in 2027 still leaves the compact 23 short of 270. Their hashtag is #FixTheElectoralCollege, but the math fixes nothing. That post sits beside Shapiro's next line like a confession.
"You can't eliminate the Electoral College without a direct amendment to the Constitution." — David Kallman
The compact asks state legislatures to pledge their electors to the national popular vote winner once participating states control 270 electoral votes—a threshold that does not exist yet. Every state that signs on before 270 is reached is simply surrendering its own voters' voice to California and New York before the compact has any legal force.
The Number That Matters: 23
Here is the number that matters: 23. Not a wave, not a done deal—twenty-three electoral votes short by the compact's own arithmetic, with Michigan and Wisconsin not scheduled to vote until 2027. Mother Jones sold a conditional forecast as a headline; Shapiro shopped the workaround in the same breath.
They want Americans to believe the Electoral College is already gone so they stay home while the paperwork gets finished. No court has ruled. No 38-state amendment exists. Patriots still hold the pressure point: state legislators who answer to voters, not to a hashtag.
Name every lawmaker who touches this compact. Primary every flip. Call your representative before the next session gavels in, because the people selling this con are counting on exhaustion—and 23 votes is a very beatable margin.
