Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20161119:00:25:00
All the constitution says about electing a president is that the states will appoint electorates in such manner as the legislature of those states determine. so the states are free, essentially, to govern with any method. it took a long time to come up with the winner-take-all method per state, and that -- what this does is it doesn't run an end run around the constitution. it honors the constitution by using that provision of the constitution, that the state legislatures have this power and then the provision allowing for interstate compacts. so what you would have is a mechanism by which we ...