The Electoral College has its problems, from the increasing frequency of presidents winning the election while losing the popular vote, to the outsize and anti-democratic influence of … But why is that bad? By Joe Wolverton, II Here’s why that’s a bad idea ... Let’s face an ugly possibility squarely: President Trump could get elected a second time without winning the popular vote. Simple minds don't understand why a national popular vote, (NPV), would be extremely bad for our country. April 8, 2016 National popular vote far better than Electoral College system for choosing presidents, Stanford professors say. This plan for a national popular vote has received a moderate level of support, but Heritage’s von Spakovsky has called it bad policy, based on mistaken assumptions. The candidates who won the popular vote have lost in the Electoral College in two out of the last six presidential elections. These simple minds say, "Gee, we would have won if we used the NPV"...but what they don't understand is that a NPV would completely change the way candidates campaign. Some critics argue that more people would vote in a direct popular election, according to … 3. However, in the popular vote, Trump only received 62,984,825 votes against Hillary Clinton's 65,853,516 popular votes. The states have already shot themselves in the foot by ratifying the 17th Amendment and thus losing their voice in the Senate (as well as giving up a significant check on the popular branch of the Congress). George W. Bush received 47.87 percent of the popular vote, while Al Gore received 48.38 percent of the popular vote. Advantage: Encourages Voter Turnout. This past week, Colorado joined a growing list of states that have signed on to the National Popular Vote Compact (NPVC).The NPVC is a proposed interstate compact in which the signatory states agree that they will appoint their presidential electors in accordance with the national popular vote rather than their own state electorate’s vote. Lipsky claims that the 2000 election ignited National Popular Vote backers, but it was proposed long after in 2006 -- after the 2004 election where a shift of a mere 60,000 votes in Ohio would have boosted Democrat John Kerry to … Meanwhile the fact that Clinton won the popular vote by 2.8 million votes — a 2.1% lead nationally — is irrelevant. It is wildly skewed against one person one vote. The most recent example of this was the 2000 presidential election. National Popular Vote is no Democratic plot. Hillary Clinton's 232 votes. Eight states have passed legislation to effectively eliminate the Electoral College in favor of a National Popular Vote (NPV) for President. However, Bush won 50.4 percent of the electoral vote and Gore only won 49.4 percent. Ours is a federal system.