I came across an article about this organization/effort the other day and visited the website:

http://www.nationalpopularvote.com

A quote from their explanation:

The National Popular Vote bill would guarantee the Presidency to the candidate who receives the most popular votes in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. The bill has been enacted by 11 jurisdictions possessing 165 electoral votes—61% of the 270 electoral votes necessary to activate it, including four small jurisdictions (RI, VT, HI, DC), three medium- size states (MD, MA, WA), and four big states (NJ, IL, NY, CA). The bill has passed a total of 33 legislative chambers in 22 states—most recently by a bipartisan 40–16 vote in the Arizona House, a 28–18 vote in the Oklahoma Senate, a 57–4 vote in New York Senate, and a 37–21 vote in Oregon House. The shortcomings of the current system of electing the President stem from state winner-take-all statutes (i.e., state laws that award all of a state’s electoral votes to the candidate receiving the most popular votes in each separatestate). Because of these state winner-take-all statutes, presidential candidates have no reason to pay attention to the issues of concern to voters in states where the statewide outcome is a foregone conclusion. As shown on the map, two-thirds of the 2012 general-election campaign events (176 of 253) were in just 4 states (Ohio, Florida, Virginia, and Iowa). Thirty-eight states were ignored.

Here are a couple of informational videos from the site (first is about 6 minutes, second about 10):

[embedyt] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWGWPTlLYnk[/embedyt]

[embedyt] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubIeQ-uO_b0[/embedyt]

I find this idea very intriguing, and had no idea that 11 states have already adopted enabling legislation. What do you all think?