Robert M. Hardaway

Saving the Electoral College: Why the National Popular Vote Would Undermine Democracy

The 2016 election caused many pundits and citizens alike to decry the Electoral College. This book explains the dangerous and unconstitutional implications of the National Popular Vote Bill, which is quietly passing in state houses across the nation.

Ever since the Founding Fathers created the Electoral College, Congress has tried to overturn it. The latest attempt is taking place not in Congress, but in state legislatures around the country, where a well-financed campaign by a private California group calling itself “National Popular Vote” (NPV) is proposing an “interstate compact” to circumvent the process for amending the U.S. Constitution. If adopted by states representing a majority of electoral votes, the signatory states would bind themselves to ignore the popular votes within their respective states, and instead allocate their electoral votes to the candidate whom the media proclaimed to be the “national popular vote” winner.

In this new history of the Electoral College, law professor Robert M. Hardaway lays bare the constitutional loopholes that have allowed this movement to succeed in states representing approximately half the electoral votes necessary to purportedly bind those states to ignore the popular vote of the people within their respective states. The presentation of the information in this book to state legislatures considering the compact, resulted in complete reversal of preconceived perceptions about how presidential elections should be conducted.


• Exposes the National Popular Vote movement, which seeks to abolish the Electoral College, by making readers aware of this its agenda, financing, and goal of effectively amending the constitutional process by a means that takes place under the radar of the general public

• Presents as succinctly and clearly as possible the dubious constitutional grounds for the Compact, as well as the ramifications if it were to somehow be approved by the U.S. Supreme Court

• Illustrates exactly how this movement is succeeding in state after state precisely because the public is uninformed about the Electoral College

• Shows how the abolition of the Electoral College and inauguration of a national “popular vote” would actually result in an outcome that is contrary to the goals of many of its supporters

Show highlights:

Most students on college campuses don’t really understand how elections work nor what the Electoral College is all about

In order to abolish the Electoral College, all States must agree

Prof. Hardaway explains why the Electoral College is fair

What is the NPVIC?

The recount in FL in the 2000 elections

Why do we have an Electoral College?

The grand compromise that created our nation

Learn more about this book

The Electoral College set up by the Founders is the most fair way to count the votes, June 23, 2020



'Robert M. Hardaway – Saving the Electoral College: Why the National Popular Vote Would Undermine Democracy – June 23, 2020' have 2 comments

  1. June 24, 2020 @ 7:48 am SeeBee

    Another educational and enlightening show! TY!

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  2. June 27, 2020 @ 8:53 pm Greg

    The popular would not undermine Democracy….It is in fact the definition of Democracy….It would certainly undermine our Republic. We do not have a Democracy….We have a Republic….It is important to understand the difference.

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