yet only three other times since the republic was founded. but according to a new study by a group calling itself making every vote count in the future one out of every three times that there's a close presidential election the candidate that wins the popular vote will not become president. the situation puts both parties at risk. the study found that, quote, results of elections in only five states outweigh results in all the other 45 states leading to the land of the ignored. there's a growing movement to abolish the electoral college originally founded to try to keep balance. one of the leaders of the national popular vote compact joins me now. princeton professor and neuro science, dr. sam wong. dr. wong, why is the trend on the up tick? >> well, the obvious driver of this is the fact that in our life times there have been